plop

Imitative of the sound, or perhaps a variant of plap.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /plɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /plɑp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

plop (countable and uncountable, plural plops)

1. (countable) A 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. (British, slang) Excrement.

plop (third-person singular simple present plops, present participle plopping, simple past and past participle plopped)

1. To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
   • 2012, Augusta Trobaugh, Music From Beyond The Moon, page 43:

     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.

2. (ambitransitive) To land heavily or loosely.

   He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.

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

     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.

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

     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.

3. (British) To defecate.

• plop down

plop

1. Indicating the sound of something plopping.
   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xiii. 110:

     "fter a bit the old ship went down all on a sudden with a lurch to starboard---plop. The suck in was something awful."

• Lopp

• plopu, plup, plupu, pljop, pljopu, pliop, pliopu

From Vulgar Latin *ploppus from classical Latin pōpulus. Compare Romanian plop.

plop m (plural plochi)

1. poplar

• pleop

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ploppus, from classical Latin pōpulus. Compare Italian pioppo.

plop m (plural plopi)

1. poplar

   Pe lângă plopii fără soț, adesea am trecut.

   By the pairless poplars, often have I passed.

• “plop”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025