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countable and uncountable, plural plops
(countable) A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water. examples
(Britain, slang) Excrement.
third-person singular simple present plops, present participle plopping, simple past and past participle plopped
To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid. quotations examples
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.
2012, Augusta Trobaugh, Music From Beyond The Moon, page 43
(transitive, intransitive) To land heavily or loosely. quotations examples
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.
2009, Reif Larson, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, page 37
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.
2022 October 19, J. Kenji López-Alt, “What Kenji López-Alt Makes His Family for Dinner”, in The New York Times
(Britain) To defecate. examples
Indicating the sound of something plopping. quotations examples
"[A]fter a bit the old ship went down all on a sudden with a lurch to starboard---plop. The suck in was something awful."
1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xiii. 110