Imitative of the sound, or perhaps a variant ofplap.
plop (countable anduncountable,pluralplops)
- (countable) A sound or action likeliquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.
He heard theplops of rain on the roof.
- (British, slang)Excrement.
A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface
plop (third-person singular simple presentplops,present participleplopping,simple past and past participleplopped)
- To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
2012, Augusta Trobaugh,Music From Beyond The Moon, page43:Stooping, she picked up another pebble, sounded out the word again, and tossed it into the shallow water near the path, where itplopped into the water, sending out circles from where it fell.
- (ambitransitive) Tolandheavily orloosely.
Heplopped down on the sofa to watch TV.
2009, Reif Larson,The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, page37:There was a world inside that tall grass. You couldplop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.
2022 October 19, J. Kenji López-Alt, “What Kenji López-Alt Makes His Family for Dinner”, inThe New York Times[1]:The first time I had niku udon was at a Japanese convenience store, now long closed, near Columbia University in the mid-1990s. For about $5, the attendants wouldplop a handful of freshly boiled udon into a Styrofoam cup and add a ladle of dashi broth seasoned with soy sauce and mirin.
- (British) Todefecate.
plop
- Indicating the sound of something plopping.
1900,Joseph Conrad,Lord Jim, pagexiii. 110:"[A]fter a bit the old ship went down all on a sudden with a lurch to starboard---plop. The suck in was something awful."
FromVulgar Latin*ploppus from classicalLatinpōpulus. CompareRomanianplop.
plop m (pluralplochi)
- poplar
Inherited fromVulgar Latin*ploppus, from classicalLatinpōpulus. CompareItalianpioppo.
plop m (pluralplopi)
- poplar
