plop

plural plops

1. countableA 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. UKcountableslanguncountableExcrement.

present singular third person plops · participle present plopping · participle past plopped · past 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. ambitransitiveTo land heavily or loosely.

   He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.

   3 more examples

   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

   There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.

   2009, Reif Larson, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, page 37

   The first time I had niku udon was at a Japanese convenience store, now long closed, near Columbia University in the mid-1990s. For about $5, the attendants would plop a handful of freshly boiled udon into a Styrofoam cup and add a ladle of dashi broth seasoned with soy sauce and mirin.

   2022 October 19, J. Kenji López-Alt, “What Kenji López-Alt Makes His Family for Dinner”, in The New York Times

3. UKTo defecate.

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

1. abbreviationacronymcomputingAcronym of Pattern Languages of Programs.