plunk down

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]

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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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.

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The Kings were plunked down in a place that hated the cold, yet they made ice cool and won two Stanley Cup championships.

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“There’s still a small population of people who are willing to plunk down the money to buy the Enquirer at the supermarket,” Levine said.

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