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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>plonk</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="plokta.html" title="plokta"/><link rel="next" href="plug-and-pray.html" title="plug-and-pray"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">plonk</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="plokta.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plug-and-pray.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="plonk"/><dt xmlns="" id="plonk"><b>plonk</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">excl.,vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet: possibly influenced by British slang ‘plonk’
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for cheap booze, or ‘plonker’ for someone behaving stupidly
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(latter is lit. equivalent to Yiddish
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<span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">schmuck</i></span>)] The sound a
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<a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a> makes as he falls to the bottom of a
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<a href="../K/kill-file.html"><i class="glossterm">kill file</i></a>. While it originated in the
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<a href="../N/newsgroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsgroup</i></a> <tt class="systemitem">talk.bizarre</tt>, this term (usually written
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“<span class="quote">*plonk*</span>”) is now (1994) widespread on Usenet as a form of
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public ridicule.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="plokta.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plug-and-pray.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">plokta </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> plug-and-pray</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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