kerplunk
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 8
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Definition of kerplunk
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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.”
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noun
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(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.”
- (US, dated, figuratively, slang)A disappointment which comes as a surprise.
intj
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Used to indicate a thudding sound.
“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.”
verb
- (informal, intransitive)To make the sound of falling and landing heavily; to thud.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From ker- (prefix forming onomatopoeias imitating the effect or sound of a heavy object falling) + plunk (“dull thud of something landing on a surface”).
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