(UK, informal) To choose; to select.
The entire dessert menu was tempting, but I plumped for the cheesecake.
“There has always been a ridiculous lack of circumspection on the far left. They'll always plump for ideological purity over the pragmatism of just choosing something better to avoid something much, much worse. At least Hungary got the memo (finally).”
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