plunk down

Idioms  

1. Throw or place or drop heavily, as in He plunked down the money and walked out, or It was hot work, so after an hour we plunked ourselves down in the shade. [Late 1800s]

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Example Sentences

This isn’t the first time that Nvidia is plunking down cash to invest in a partner.

From MarketWatch

Years of frugality tugged at my brain, but I plunked down her credit card for the better mattress.

From The Wall Street Journal

In Disney’s new “Monsters, Inc.” it’s a joke when the film briefly plunks down in Paris and there’s accordion music playing — that’s our movie-fed idea of Paris.

From Salon

The seventh episode, “They Wanna Have Fun,” plunks down loud hints that Michael Patrick King and his writers will soon be correcting the show’s Aidan affliction and possibly replacing it with a new malady.

From Salon

The company said it was the third flight of the mission’s first stage booster, which — following separation — would plunk down on the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship moored in the Pacific.

From Los Angeles Times

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