Definitions
A sound of someone or something falling and landing heavily.
Word origin
From ker- (prefix forming onomatopoeias imitating the effect or sound of a heavy object falling) + plunk (“dull thud of something landing on a surface”).
Used in a sentence
“If my life were a Saturday-morning cartoon, you would have heard a loud kerplunk as my stomach dropped. My poor starving stomach. It was under such stress already, and now this.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Heavy dropping sound”8 letters
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