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plonko

plonko noun: someone addicted to cheap wine.

Noun

plonko (plural plonkos)

  1. (Australia, informal) someone addicted to cheap wine.
    • Then there's the mob of plonkos who sleep down at the dockside, less than 700 yards from the city's Town Hall.1978, Bill Mollison, Coral Everitt, The Tasmanian Aborigines and their descendants
    Synonyms:
    boozehound, wino

Synonyms of plonko

Forms of plonko

pluralplonkos

Origin of plonko

From plonk + -o. See also wino.

Questions about plonko

What does plonko mean?
Plonko means someone addicted to cheap wine.
What part of speech is plonko?
Plonko is a noun.
What is the plural of plonko?
The plural of plonko is plonkos.

Words near plonko in the dictionary

  1. plonkers
  2. plonkier
  3. plonkiest
  4. plonking
  5. plonkings
  6. plonko
  7. plonkos
  8. plonks
  9. plonky
  10. Plonski
  11. Plonskis

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