Plonk

Plonk is an Australian, British and Canadian slang for cheap wine. It is supposed that the term is a corruption of "blanc."

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Plonk is also a Usenet slang term for adding a particular person to one's kill file. It can be used as a verb to describe the action, or appended to the end of one's Usenet post to publicly demonstrate that you have added a person to your kill file.

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Example usage:

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Jean-Paul Turcaud wrote:

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> No ramps were used to build the GP , and well as the 2 main

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> others... another technique far more developed that the one even used now.

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• plonk* and yet another killfile entry!

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In this case the respondent has added Jean-Paul Turcaud to their killfile and has decided to emphasize the point with the word "plonk".

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The word is a somewhat fanciful example of onomatopoeia, intended to humorously represent the supposed sound of the user hitting the killfile (like hitting the bottom of a barrel). It is commonly used as a verb: "I plonked that idiot".

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It can also mean Put Lamer on Killfile. Other theories include Person with Little Or No Knowledge and Person Leaving Our Newsgroup, Killfiled, but these are likely back formations.

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