Definition of Plops

1. Noun. (plural of plop) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of plop) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plops

1. plop [v] - See also: plop

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plops

plonks
plonky
plook
plookie
plookier
plookiest
plooks
ploop
ploops
plopped
ploppier
ploppiest
plopping
plops (current term)
plosion
plosions
plosive
plosive consonant
plosive speech sound
plosively
plosiveness
plosives
plosophoric
plot
plot bunnies
plot bunny
plot device
plot devices

Literary usage of Plops

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Making of Herbert Hoover by Rose Wilder Lane (1920)
"... his feet raising little plops of white dust. At the end of the short street stretched the wide sterile land, parched and dead, giving birth to no green ..."

2. Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style Into Writer's Workshop by Jeff Anderson (2005)
""First, I wrote a base sentence: Ellen plops down in the middle of the floor." I describe how I added close-ups to my sentence by adding the things I saw ..."

3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"A fit of indigestion puts itself between you and honours and reputation ; an apple plops on your nose, and makes you a world's wonder and glory ; a fit of ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"plops her authority, founded in human dignity, in connexion with, and subordinate to, the man in domes- This elevation of woman centres in Mary the Mother ..."

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