Plop

/plɒp/ · noun

Meaning

(countable) A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.
2. (British, slang) Excrement.
3. To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
4. (ambitransitive) To land heavily or loosely.
5. (British) To defecate.
6. Indicating the sound of something plopping.

Example Sentences

He heard the plops of rain on the roof.

Stooping, she picked up another pebble, sounded out the word again, and tossed it into the shallow water near the path, where it plopped into the water, sending out circles from where it fell.

He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.

As the sun plops into the Pacific off Venice Beach, California, the four of us are sitting in a rented car at the corner of Rose and Main.

There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.

The first time I had niku udon was at a Japanese convenience store, now long closed, near Columbia University in the mid-1990s. For about $5, the attendants would plop a handful of freshly boiled udon into a Styrofoam cup and add a ladle of dashi broth seasoned with soy sauce and mirin.

"[A]fter a bit the old ship went down all on a sudden with a lurch to starboard---plop. The suck in was something awful."

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• plops
• plopping
• plopped

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