plip-plop
(ˈplɪpˈplɒp)
[Imit.]
A representation of a rhythmically regular sequence of sounds. Hence ˈplip-plopping a.
| 1953 John o' London's Weekly 23 Jan. 75/3 Several percussion players produced delicate plip-plops, and three sopranos murmured the vocal line. 1961 Countryman Autumn 514 Plip-plop went the donkey's decorously pointing toes. Ibid. 516 Then a ‘plip-plop’... The donkey..was tittupping round the dustbin. 1979 J. Barnett Backfire is Hostile! xiv. 165 Rain began to fall slowly, in large separate plip-plopping drops. |