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noun - A short, high-pitched sound
verb - (context, with "out") (colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
- 1971: Louis C. Reichman, Barry J. Wishart, American Politics and Its Interpreters
- :He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows....
- 1997: Kevin Osborn, Signe Larson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bringing Up Baby
- :Your child may also begin to plink out a few notes on a xylophone or toy piano before her first birthday.
- 2004: Angela Elwell Hunt, The Truth Teller
- :The female deputy sat down at the ramshackle piano and proceeded to plink out the opening notes of "Heart and Soul."
Etymology: onomatopoetic, Onomatopoetic.
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