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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a cheap wine of inferior quality;

2. the noise of something dropping (as into liquid);

VERB (1)

1. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise;
- Example: "He planked the money on the table"
- Example: "He planked himself into the sofa"
[syn: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump]


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (17 December 2009):

plonk

    (Possibly influenced by British slang
   "plonk" for cheap booze, or "plonker" for someone behaving
   stupidly; usually written "*plonk*") The sound a newbie
   makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file.  While this
   term originated in the Usenet newsgroup
   news:talk.bizarre, by 1994 it was widespread on Usenet and
   mailing lists as a form of public ridicule.

   Another theory is that it is an acronym for "Person with
   Little Or No Knowledge".

   (2002-01-18)


The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

plonk
 excl.,vt.

    [Usenet: possibly influenced by British slang ?plonk? for cheap booze, or
    ?plonker? for someone behaving stupidly (latter is lit. equivalent to
    Yiddish schmuck)] The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a
    kill file. While it originated in the newsgroup talk.bizarre, this term
    (usually written ?*plonk*?) is now (1994) widespread on Usenet as a form of
    public ridicule.


V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006):

PLONK
       Please Leave Our Newsgroup, Kid (Usenet, slang)