Sekirov Dictionary

kerplunk

UK /kəˈplʌŋk/US /kə(ɹ)ˈplʌŋk/

noun 2
exclamation 1
verb 1
forms 3

noun2

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(informal) A sound of someone or something falling and landing heavily.
- If my life were a Saturday-morning cartoon, you would have heard a loud kerplunk as my stomach dropped. My poor starving stomach. It was under such stress already, and now this. — 2005
(slang, figurative) A disappointment which comes as a surprise.

exclamation1

Used to indicate a thudding sound.

verb1

(informal) To make the sound of falling and landing heavily; to thud.

forms

kerplunked · kerplunking · kerplunks

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