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kerplunks

kerplunks is the plural of kerplunk.

kerplunks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

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Questions about kerplunks

What is kerplunks the plural of?
Kerplunks is the plural of kerplunk.

Words near kerplunks in the dictionary

  1. kerplop
  2. kerplops
  3. kerplunk
  4. kerplunked
  5. kerplunking
  6. kerplunks
  7. kerpow
  8. kerpows
  9. Kerr
  10. Kerr black hole
  11. Kerr black holes

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