plop

Noun

plop (countable and uncountable, plural plops)

1. (countable) A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.
   • He heard the plops of rain on the roof.
2. (UK, slang) Excrement.

Verb

plop (third-person singular simple present plops, present participle plopping, simple past and past participle plopped)

1. To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
   • Stooping, she picked up another pebble, sounded out the word again, and tossed it into the shallow water near the path, where it plopped into the water, sending out circles from where it fell.2012, Augusta Trobaugh, Music From Beyond The Moon, page 43
2. (ambitransitive) To land heavily or loosely.
   • He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.
   • As the sun plops into the Pacific off Venice Beach, California, the four of us are sitting in a rented car at the corner of Rose and Main.1990 September, Dean Kuipers, “gonna Kick tomorrow”, in Bob Guccione, Jr., editor, Spin, volume 6, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Camouflage Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58, column 1
3. (UK) To defecate.

Interjection

1. Indicating the sound of something plopping.
   • "[A]fter a bit the old ship went down all on a sudden with a lurch to starboard---plop. The suck in was something awful."1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xiii. 110

Proper noun capitalized: PLoP

PLoP

1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Pattern Languages of Programs.