(informal) A sound of someone or something falling and landing heavily.
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.
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(figuratively, US, slang, dated) A disappointment which comes as a surprise.
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.
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(intransitive, informal) To make the sound of falling and landing heavily; to thud.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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