plop

[plop]

verb (used without object)

plopped, plopping 

1. to make a sound like that of something falling or dropping into water.

   A frog plopped into the pond.

2. to fall with such a sound.

   Big raindrops plopped against the window.

3. to drop or fall with full force or direct impact.

   He plopped into a chair.

verb (used with object)

plopped, plopping 

1. to drop or set down heavily.

   She plopped her books on the desk.

2. to cause to plop.

   The fisherman plopped the bait into the river.

noun

1. a plopping sound or fall.

2. the act of plopping.

adverb

1. with a plop.

   The stone fell plop into the water.

plop

/ plɒp /

noun

1. the characteristic sound made by an object dropping into water without a splash

verb

1. to fall or cause to fall with the sound of a plop

   the stone plopped into the water

interjection

1. an exclamation imitative of this sound

   to go plop

Word History and Origins

Origin of plop¹

First recorded in 1815–25; imitative

Word History and Origins

Origin of plop¹

C19: imitative of the sound

Example Sentences

Not surprisingly, increasingly fewer fans want to devote their Saturdays to cheering for a team that too often finds itself plopping into a Brookside bunker.

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He would have been right, too, if the goddess Diana had simply been plopped in the middle of an Ominous Landscape.

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She’s plopped herself on the forest floor, and she munches bamboo shoot after bamboo shoot.

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A fish wiggled out from a muddy clump on her head and plopped back into the pond.

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She scooped him up, plopped him on her shoulder, and said, “Tell me where to run.”

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Related Words

• flutter 
• plunk