See kerplunk in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Coordinate term: kersplosh"
},
{
"ref": "1986 November, Eva Bunting, chapter 7, in Sixth-grade Sleepover (An Apple Paperback), New York, N.Y.: Scholastic, →ISBN, page 41:",
"text": "We flipped to see who'd go first and I won, which meant Claudia had to dial. I called the number out loud for her, and inside me my heart was suddenly going \"kerplunk, kerplunk, kerplunk,\" heavy as an elephant's feet.",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "used to indicate a thudding sound",
"word": "tumps"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "used to indicate a thudding sound",
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "used to indicate a thudding sound",
"word": "patatras"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "used to indicate a thudding sound",
"word": "krach"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "used to indicate a thudding sound",
"word": "bum"
},
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"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "used to indicate a thudding sound",
"word": "bardaf"
}
],
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"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
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"form": "kerplunking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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"To make the sound of falling and landing heavily; to thud."
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"(intransitive, informal) To make the sound of falling and landing heavily; to thud."
],
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"ipa": "/kə(ɹ)ˈplʌŋk/",
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}
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