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plunk down



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Idioms and Phrases

Throw or place or drop heavily, as in He plunked down the money and walked out , or It was hot work, so after an hour we plunked ourselves down in the shade . [Late 1800s]
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The Kings were plunked down in a place that hated the cold, yet they made ice cool and won two Stanley Cup championships.

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“There’s still a small population of people who are willing to plunk down the money to buy the Enquirer at the supermarket,†Levine said.

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Heywood is a transplanted hedge fund mogul from California who, last year, plunked down more than $6 million to fund signature gathering operations to put six initiatives on the ballot.

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But the passengers who plunked down $1,800 to $100,000 and boarded the ship at Port Miami in Florida on Jan. 27, said nothing could have prepared them for the vessel’s sheer scale.

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Instead, they might have a quasi-nearer-my-Trump-to-thee feeling as they plunk down their cash.

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