plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump
(verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; “He planked the money on the table”; “He planked himself into the sofa”
flump, flump down
(verb) fall heavily
Source: WordNet® 3.1
flump (third-person singular simple present flumps, present participle flumping, simple past and past participle flumped)
(intransitive) To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.
(transitive) To drop something heavily or with a dull sound.
flump (plural flumps)
The dull sound so produced.
A type of large marshmallow.
(by extension) A fat out-of-shape person.
• plunk, thud
• Pflum
Source: Wiktionary
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
