flump
IPA: fɫˈʌmp
noun
- The dull sound so produced.
- A type of large marshmallow.
- (by extension) A fat out-of-shape person.
verb
- (intransitive) To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.
- (transitive) To drop something heavily or with a dull sound.
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Examples of "flump" in Sentences
- Berryman, who wrote funny poems and then stopped writing funny poems and launched himself off a bridge and, flump, that was it for him.
- He was a noisy contraption too quick too early in day and with small bump and flump fump with balding front tire he struck a mother duck.
- After about 8 seconds in the microwave we heard a slightly muffled "flump" sound, which turned out to be a Boll exploding into smaller boll-bits.
- A half minute later, there was an explosive flump, the groan of contorting steel, a crash as the door frame was torn from the wall, the overhead twisting and falling.
- Several more seconds led to several smaller "flump" sounds, and we were eventually left with a pile of warm, steamy Boll bits, and a slightly perplexed material science engineer!
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