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# plop

«plop» in Mova's school dictionary: **The soft sound of something small dropping into water…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a plop, plops); verb (plop, plops, plopped, plopping); adverb (plop)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The soft sound of something small dropping into water, like a pebble or a frog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plop/#m1)

2) (verb) To fall or drop with this sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plop/#m2)

3) (verb, informal) To sit down or put something down heavily and carelessly: «She plopped down on the sofa.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plop/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Plop is an onomatopoeic word — it sounds like the noise it names (like splash, drip, buzz). In The Wind in the Willows, the river bank is full of small sounds like the plop of a water vole or a fish. In poetry and writing lessons it is used for sound effects. Phrase: «plop down».

### examples

- The frog jumped into the pond with a plop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plop/#x1)
- A big raindrop plopped onto my nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plop/#x2)
- He plopped his bag on the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plop/#x3)
- Something went plop in the dark river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plop/#x4)
- She plopped down on the beanbag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plop/#x5)
- Two ice cubes plopped into my drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plop/#x6)
- We heard a plop as the water vole dived. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plop/#x7)

### note

Past plopped, -ing plopping (double p). It is an onomatopoeia. Compare: plop (small and soft), splash (bigger), sploosh (informal, big).

### In the corpora

- [A large tear rolls down each of Toad's cheeks, plop! plop!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «plop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.