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kaplunk

kaplunk is the alternative form of kerplunk.

Meaning of kerplunk

Noun

kerplunk (plural kerplunks)

  1. (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, Michelle Tea, chapter 15, in Rose of No Man’s Land […], 1st Harvest edition, Orlando, Fla.; Austin, Tex.: Harcourt, published 2007, →ISBN, page 125
    Synonyms:
    kerchunk, plunk, thud
  2. (US, dated, figuratively, slang) A disappointment which comes as a surprise.

See all 4 meanings of kerplunk

Forms of kaplunk

Noun
pluralkaplunks
Verb
third-person singular presentkaplunks
present participlekaplunking
past participlekaplunked
pastkaplunked

Questions about kaplunk

What is kaplunk the alternative form of?
Kaplunk is the alternative form of kerplunk.

Words near kaplunk in the dictionary

  1. Kaplans
  2. Kaplin
  3. Kaplowitz
  4. Kaplowitzes
  5. Kaplun
  6. kaplunk
  7. kaplunked
  8. kaplunking
  9. kaplunks
  10. kapnography
  11. kapnomar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kaplunk (page history and authors); kerplunk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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