plunk down

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsplankflumpplonkplopplunkplump downplump

   Broaderset down

Questions about plunk down

What does plunk down mean?

plunk down means "set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise".

What is another word for plunk down?

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

plunk 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.