Meanings
present singular third person plaps · participle present plapping · participle past plapped · past plapped
- To plash; fall with a plashing sound.
He'd have to look up, have to look— A stone plapped into a greasy puddle not two feet away.
2010, Joanne Harris, Blackberry Wine2 more examples
On this day it was so cold that the white bears winked their pink eyes, as they plapped up and down by their pool, and seemed to say, " Aha, this weather reminds us of dear home!
1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Roundabout PapersThe crowd humped together, squealing, around her, to the floor; the room plapped into halflight, low from two wall lamps, glowing on her legs, over the ducking heads.
2015, Harold Pinter, The Dwarfs - Internetsexual slangTo masturbate by hitting the testicles.
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Origin
Imitative.
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Cite this entry
plap. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plap
“plap.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plap. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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