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Commit and Plunk

verb

  • Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
    • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
    • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
    • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • Confer a trust upon.
    • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • Make an investment.
    • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • Engage in or perform.
    • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

  • A hollow twanging sound.
  • Baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly.

verb

  • Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground.
  • Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise.
    • usage: "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa"
  • Drop steeply.
    • usage: "the stock market plunged"
  • Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion.
    • usage: "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"

adverb

  • With a short hollow thud.
    • usage: "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green"
  • (n.) Act or sound of plunking.
  • (v.t.) To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply or suddenly; as, to plunk down a dollar; also, to hit or strike.
  • (n.) A dollar.
  • (n.) A large sum of money.
  • (v.i.) To make a quick, hollow, metallic or harsh sound, as by pulling hard on a taut string and quickly releasing it; of a raven, to croak.
  • (v.t.) To be a truant from (school).
  • (v.i.) To play truant or "hooky".
  • (v.t.) To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.
  • (v.i.) To drop or sink down suddenly or heavily; to plump.