plops

Falls with splashes

Plops is the plural of plop—the sound of something dropping into water or onto a soft surface, or the act of dropping in that way.

She heard several plops as frogs jumped into the pond.

As a verb form, plops means falls or sets down heavily: He plops onto the couch after work.

sound

splashes

Liquid scattered by impact

thuds · gurgles · squelches · sploshes · plinks · patters · bubbles · sloshes · kerplunks · glugs

falls

tumbles

Falls in disarray

lands · settles · collapses · flops · slumps · topples · crashes · plunges · nosedives · plummets

messy

splatter

Scatter in drops

slop · gunk · muck · blob · dollop · glop · smear · puddle · splodge · mess

drops

lands

Comes to ground

dumps · tosses · throws · lays · puts · settles · releases · slumps · plants · parks

comical

slapstick

Exaggerated physical humor

absurd · whoopee cushion · pratfall · buffoonery · juvenile · lowbrow · potty humor · bodily · crude · funny

fecal

droppings

Animal excrement deposits

  • dungAnimal fecal matter
  • manureAnimal waste as fertilizer
  • scatImprovised vocal jazz

excrement · cowpat · guano · pellets · poop · deposits · animal waste · fertilizer

Categories
Opposites
sound quality

plopscrashes

Sudden violent impacts

bangs · clangs · slams · booms · thuds

manner of placement/landing

plopsarranges

Puts into order

situates · lays · stations · installs · lodges

movement direction

plopsrises

Moves upward

ascends · soars · lifts · shoots up · increases

Phrases
Family

plop, plopped, plopping

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G