plonk

Interjection

1. The sound made by something solid landing.
2. (Internet) The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.

Noun (1)

plonk (plural plonks)

1. (countable) The sound of something solid landing.
   • I just heard a plonk – did something fall down in the kitchen?

Verb

plonk (third-person singular simple present plonks, present participle plonking, simple past and past participle plonked)

1. (transitive) To set or toss (something) down carelessly.
   • When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink.
   • We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN
2. (reflexive) To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
   • Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
   • Changing trains at Hereford, I catch the West Midlands Class 170 that is waiting for me at Platform 1. Plonking myself in a table bay, I settle in to enjoy the trip on what is another quiet train - well, until Ledbury, where a couple of dozen people are waiting.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67
3. (Internet, transitive) To automatically ignore or block a particular poster.
   • I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.

   Synonyms:

   kill file

Adverb

plonk (not comparable)

1. Precisely and forcefully.
   • He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.

   Synonyms:

   bang, slap bang

Noun (2)

plonk (uncountable)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
   • The third category of wines is highly unattractive as these may only be sold as generic wines (white, red or rosé), without reference to any geographical location. Only surplus plonk and cooking wine would aspire to fall in this segment, which can be blended with any other wine - to any extent.1998, Pierre Spahni, Swiss Wine Market Report, page 95
   • Diesel took a large swallow out of the glass of red wine. He spluttered, choked, and spilled wine down one leg of his fawn colored pants. “My God,” he gasped, when he could speak. “What is that crap?”
     “Why cheap red wine,” Ford displayed the label. “You know. Plonk.”2003, Joan del Monte, Plonk Goes the Weasel, page 201
2. (historical, slang) AC Plonk

Noun (3)

plonk (plural plonks)

1. (Ireland, UK, countable, derogatory, slang) A female police constable.
   • Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.

   Synonyms:

   5-O, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, bluebottle, bluecoat, blue heeler, blue meanie, bobby

Proper noun capitalized: PLONK

PLONK

1. A solution stack consisting of Prometheus (metrics and time-series), Linkerd (service mesh), OpenFaaS (management and auto-scaling of compute), NATS (asynchronous message bus/queue), and Kubernetes (declarative, extensible, scale-out, self-healing clustering).