plonk down

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   drop heavily

   Synonymsplump downplank down

   Broaderdrop

Questions about plonk down

What does plonk down mean?

plonk down means "drop heavily".

What is another word for plonk down?

Close synonyms include plump down, plank down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plonk down a common word?

plonk down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.