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plunk

verb as in throw down

Strongest match

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They glided over the pasture and plunked down into the pond.

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

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 spurs are stripped from the boots and Stone is plunked onto the sheep.

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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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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