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adv
Precisely and forcefully.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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intj
The sound made by something solid landing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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intj
The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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name
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
The sound of something solid landing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal, uncountable
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noun
AC Plonk
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, slang, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
A female police constable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK, countable, derogatory, slang
Topics: government, law-enforcement
Synonyms: 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, one-time, PC Plod, pig, piggy, peeler, plod, police, police officer, policeman, policeperson, polis, po-po, raw lobster, roller, rozzer, scufter, slop, swine, statie, twelve, tyre biter, unboiled lobster, walloper, wooden-top
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verb
To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: reflexive
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verb
To automatically ignore a particular poster.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, transitive
Synonyms: kill file
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: noise
noun
a cheap wine of inferior quality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wine, vino
verb
set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: plank, flump, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: set down, put down, place down
History
Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
From WWI military slang, derived by alteration of French vin blanc (“white wine”) by the law of Hobson-Jobson. Recorded earliest in the playful rhyming slang form plinketty-plonk. Possibly influenced by the sound of wine being poured into a glass.
Probably a shortening of plonker.
Across languages
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
