plunking
Setting down heavily
Plunking is the present participle of plunk—to drop or set down heavily and unceremoniously: She came in plunking groceries on the counter.
It also describes the sound of plucking strings or striking keys without finesse: He sat plunking away at the piano.
To plunk down money is to pay it, often reluctantly or all at once.
Fretted drum-stringed instrument
- bluegrassAcoustic Appalachian folk music
- fingerpickingPlucking strings by hand
- strummingSweeping across guitar strings
- twangSharp vibrating sound
clawhammer · folk · acoustic · old-timey · Appalachia · country · fretboard · picking
Soft dropping sound
plop
Soft dropping sound
twang · ping · clang · resonance · vibration · echo · impact · drop · splash · bang
banjo
Fretted drum-stringed instrument
- bluegrassAcoustic Appalachian folk music
- fingerpickingPlucking strings by hand
- strummingSweeping across guitar strings
twang · clawhammer · folk · acoustic · old-timey · Appalachia · country · fretboard · picking · strings
plop
Soft dropping sound
drop · thump · slam · place · land · settle · flop · throw · dump · slap down
bait
Lure for prey
lure · float · line · hook · splash · ripple · surface · pond · lake · angler
hit
Successful contact or strike
Texas leaguer · dink · flare · bat · contact · shallow · outfield · infield hit
- placing actionsputting, placing, laying, dropping, depositing
- Marblesshooter, shooters, taw, cat's eye, steelies
- baseball incidentsbalk, error, ejection, interference, obstruction