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▪ I. plink, v.|plɪŋk|
[Imit.]
a. intr. To emit a short sharp metallic or ringing sound; to play a musical instrument in this manner.
1941E. P. O'Donnell Great Big Doorstep 194 A frog plinked, squirmed out, snapped open and away. 1945B. MacDonald Egg & I (1946) xii. 144 The berries..had begun to plink into the..buckets. 1976Gazette (Montreal) 19 July 3/3 (heading) Pianist plinking for Canada. 1979G. Hammond Dead Game v. 77 A bullet at full speed plinks like somebody leaned on the lid of a biscuit-tin.
b. intr. and trans. To shoot a gun at a target; to hit (a target) with a shot from a gun.
1966R. Thomas Spy in Vodka x. 94 It was an ugly gun, [not] designed..for plinking at rabbits. 1975G. V. Higgins City on Hill vi. 160 The back was full of rats... I bought an air-pistol..and I'd plink at them. 1976L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy iv. 41 Goddamned weather... I would have plinked him but for that damned patch of ice.
So ˈplinking ppl. a. and vbl. n.
1961Guns & Hunting Dec. 11/2 You may therefore convert the gun into a small-game and plinking arm. 1965Listener 30 Sept. 507/3 On summer Wednesdays we have supped full of horrors with heartbeats down the corridors, creaking boards, plinking music and plenty of the consequences of over-tidiness, over-mothering, and all that suppressed sex. 1977J. Cleary High Road to China iv. 139 The General practising his banjo..the plinking of the strings. 1977R. E. Harrington Quintain xiv. 162 Quintain heard a brittle plinking sound that went from a high tone to a low tone. 1978Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. 8e/1 Say you owned a handgun and wanted to take it out for plinking or target practice.
▪ II. plink, n.|plɪŋk|
[f. the vb.]
The sound or action of plinking; a sharp metallic noise. Also quasi-adv. and as int.
1954J. R. R. Tolkien Two Towers viii. 153 And plink! a silver drop falls. 1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. 305 The smaller pebble goes plink, the larger, plunk. 1971Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 3 Dec. 7/1 No wonder..that the first plink of those conciliatory ping-pong balls produced rapturous applause. 1974Times 7 Mar. 12/4, I cannot dance to electronic music, because I simply do not know how to hear those plinks and plonks and bumps. |