plop

1. 1.

   drop something with a plopping sound

   Broaderdrop
2. 2.

   drop with the sound of something falling into water

   Broaderdescend
3. 3.

   set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise

   “He planked the money on the table”

   “He planked himself into the sofa”

   Synonymsplankflumpplonkplunkplump downplunk downplump

   Broaderset down

1. 1.

   the noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash

   Broadernoise

1. 1.

   with a short hollow thud

   “plop came the ball down to the corner of the green”

   Synonymsplunk

   colloquialism

Other forms of plop

plural

plops·

past tense or participle

plopped

present participle

plopping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plop

What does plop mean?

plop means "drop something with a plopping sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plop?

plop has 1 syllable: plop. In IPA it is /ˈplɑp/.

What is another word for plop?

Close synonyms include plank, flump, plonk, plunk, plump 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 plop a common word?

plop is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.