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/kəˈplʌŋk/ · noun
(informal) A sound of someone or something falling and landing heavily..
If my life were a Saturday-morning cartoon, you would have heard a loud kerplunk as my stomach dropped. My poor starving stomach. It was under such stress already, and now this.
We flipped to see who'd go first and I won, which meant Claudia had to dial. I called the number out loud for her, and inside me my heart was suddenly going "kerplunk, kerplunk, kerplunk," heavy as an elephant's feet.
Use kerplunk when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Kerplunk means (informal) A sound of someone or something falling and landing heavily..
Common synonyms include kerchunk, plunk, thud.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If my life were a Saturday-morning cartoon, you would have heard a loud kerplunk as my stomach dropped. My poor starving stomach. It was under such stress already, and now this.
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