Plonk

4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  plonk
       n 1: a cheap wine of inferior quality
       2: the noise of something dropping (as into liquid)
       v : 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" [syn: {plank}, {flump}, {plop}, {plunk}, {plump


           down}, {plunk down}, {plump}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

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

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)