Meaning of plonk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The sound of something solid landing.
   countable
2. Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal, uncountable
3. A solution stack consisting of Prometheus (metrics and time-series), Linkerd (service mesh), OpenFaaS (management and auto-scaling of compute), NATS (asynchronous message bus/queue), and Kubernetes (declarative, extensible, scale-out, self-healing clustering).
4. A female police constable.
   Ireland, UK, countable, derogatory, slang
5. AC Plonk
   historical, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I just heard a plonk – did something fall down in the kitchen?”

“The third category of wines is highly unattractive as these may only be sold as generic wines (white, red or rosé), without reference to any geographical location. Only surplus plonk and cooking wine would aspire to fall in this segment, which can be blended with any other wine - to any extent.”

“Diesel took a large swallow out of the glass of red wine. He spluttered, choked, and spilled wine down one leg of his fawn colored pants. “My God,” he gasped, when he could speak. “What is that crap?” “Why cheap red wine,” Ford displayed the label. “You know. Plonk.””

“2011, Charles Spence, Maya U. Shankar, Heston Blumenthal, Chapter 11: ‘Sound Bites’: Auditory Contributions to the Perceeption and Consumption of Food and Drink, Francesca Bacci, David Melcher (editors), Art and the Senses, page 229, Given the results reported in this chapter, one obvious solution to the ‘plonk paradox’ (why cheap wine tastes good on holiday but terrible at home) would be to try and recapture some of these sensory impressions in one′s own living room, in order to enhance the flavour/pleasantness of the wine-drinking experience (and turn that horrible tasting wine into something that tastes really rather nice), and to elucidate the respective contributions of contextual effects on hedonic ratings.”

“Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.”

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