plop

plop1 /plɒp $ plɑːp/ noun [countableC]

SOUNDthe sound made by something when it falls or is dropped into liquid 〔物体掉入液体中的〕扑通声，啪嗒声

with a plop

The soap fell into the bath with a loud plop.

肥皂掉进了浴缸里，发出很响的扑通声。

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Examples from the Corpus

plop• There was a plop as it landed in the water, then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down.• The frog reached the stream and jumped in with a plop.• He eyed them and tossed the small ones over his shoulder into the water with a plop.• Three quiet days went past in the slow slap and plop of the river.• And suddenly, with the water, out came the long slimy newt straight into the glass, plop!• A prim plop as it landed, sank.• It came out with a sickening plop and a gushing gout of blood.

with a plop• He eyed them and tossed the small ones over his shoulder into the water with a plop.

plop2 verb (plopped, plopping)

1 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]SOUND to fall somewhere, making a sound like something dropping into water 扑通[啪嗒]地落下

plop into/out of/onto etc

The frog plopped back into the pond.

青蛙扑通一声跳回了池塘。

2 [transitiveT]PUT to drop something, especially into a liquid, so that it makes a sound 把…扑通[啪嗒]一声放入〔液体里〕

plop something into something

I plopped a couple of ice cubes into the drink.

我把几块冰啪嗒啪嗒放入饮料之中。

3 plop (yourself) down SITto sit down or lie down heavily 重重地坐下[躺下]

She plopped down on the sofa beside me.

她重重地坐在了沙发上。

Examples from the Corpus

plop (yourself) down• Our friend Joan strolls into the bank and plops down $ 100 to open an account.• The coyote returned to the barn end and plopped down in front of the crowd of llamas.• She plops down on the empty cot and lifts a curtain to peer out the window.• Stanley plopped down on the sofa beside me.• Carefully, slowly, not at all certain why, they plopped down on to the branch.• She plopped down too much mortar, smoothed it out and set a brick on it.• On our other side a young couple wandered by and plopped down with only a six-pack and a sleeping bag.

Examples from the Corpus

plop• The hobo could not flow, could not plop.• The frog plopped back into the river.• Our friend Joan strolls into the bank and plops down $ 100 to open an account.• Carefully, slowly, not at all certain why, they plopped down on to the branch.• Tom plopped himself askew in one of the Venetian chairs.• The green ones held on tighter, didn't plop into her palms but had to be tugged.• Although I was evading the wall and finding the goal, the ball was plopping into the net.• Noah threw a stone high into the air and it plopped into the river.• Several letters plopped onto the doormat.• The gas plops out, and I butter the toast listening to matches struck in the dark.

Origin plop2

(1800-1900) From the sound

plop1 nounplop2 verb

Chinese

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