English Explanatory Dictionary

plonk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

intj
  1. The sound made by something solid landing.
  2. The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.
noun
  1. The sound of something solid landing.
verb
  1. To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
  2. To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
  3. To automatically ignore a particular poster.
adv
  1. Precisely and forcefully.
noun
  1. Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
  2. AC Plonk
noun
  1. A female police constable.
name
  1. A solution stack consisting of Prometheus (metrics and time-series), Linkerd (service mesh), OpenFaaS (management and auto-scaling of compute), NATS (asynchronous message bus/queue), and Kubernetes (declarative, extensible, scale-out, self-healing clustering).

Pronunciation

/plɒŋk/ plänk /plɑŋk/ en-au-plonk.ogg

Word forms

plonk plonks plonking plonked

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

Synonyms

kill file bang slap bang 5-O alphabet barney beatsman bizzie bluebottle bluecoat blue heeler blue meanie bobby body snatcher bogey boy in blue bull bullyman buttons centenier charpering omi chazzer cobbler cop copper cozzer cracker crusher crowns dibble fed filth finest finger five-o flatfoot flatty fuzz garda gendarme glowie guardian of the peace harman harman-beck Inspector Knacker jack jackboot jake John Law John Q. Law Johnny Hopper lawman mee-maw monarch Mr Plod mutton shunter nuthook oinker Officer Friendly Old Bill

Derived words

plonkable plonkee unplonk plonker Europlonk plonko plonky
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