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plunk

[pluhngk] / plʌŋk /
VERB
throw down
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John Reed, a 55-year-old IT worker in suburban Atlanta, was ready to plunk down $60,000 on a new Ram truck last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Their fee would be based on your investible assets, so if you take all of that $1 million and plunk it down on a house, their fee goes way down.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

But this idea that if you plunk that genius in any moment in time, it would rise to the top, that’s not necessarily true.

From Salon May 25, 2024

The coach also met with donors who could plunk a few gold bars into the NIL war chest and unleashed a “MOW!!!” tweet around midnight earlier this week.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 17, 2024

It was narrow, damp, and silent, except for the occasional plunk . . . plunk . . . plunk of water dripping.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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