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plunker

American  
[pluhng-ker] / ˈplʌŋ kər /

noun

  1. a person or thing that plunks.

  2. Angling. a casting lure that makes a plunking sound upon hitting the surface of the water.


Etymology

Origin of plunker

plunk + -er 1

Example Sentences

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Price started her set with “About to Find Out,” a straight-up country plunker with some of the taunting attitude of “Fist City,” but addressed to a man.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 2, 2016

Hollywood tapped him in 1934 to start a movie career that no other hell-for-leather guitar plunker has ever equaled.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are 51 songs, 20 previously unavailable on CD and seven never released before, including a ravishing version of the old piano plunker Heart and Soul.

From Time Magazine Archive

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