Definitions
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- verb To
flop downwearily . - verb To
faint . - verb To
fall downdead .
Etymologies
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Examples
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�Shvitz has other meanings in different contexts, but my editor said if I tried to explain them, he would plotz.
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The rest of us would like to get on with making this country whole again without having to constantly avoid you fetid piles of plotz.
Think Progress » McCain complains that the United States has yet to ‘pull the trigger’ on Iran. 2010
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Bantam Dell merges with Ballantine … my 14-year-old sci-fi reading self would plotz
News syrinx 2010
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�Shvitz has other meanings in different contexts, but my editor said if I tried to explain them, he would plotz.
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If we feel angry, we yell or withdraw; when we feel hungry, we reach for food; when we feel lazy, we plotz in front of the TV or computer.
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Many people were requested to 'plotz', explode, but only after they had gone to 'kakin afen yam', relieve themselves in the ocean.
Marc Gopin: Beyond Jewish Blessings And Curses There Is Absolute Love Marc Gopin 2011
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Yet, sighing past armies of "cardboard monsters" with annoying, pointlessly mechanized googly eyes, and what must be two yards of insipid T-shirts with hammer-over-the-head obvious references, one is reminded of children in art classes who all have the same assignment: if any one of these stands out, or shows a modicum of identifiable wit, I'll plotz.
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Yet, sighing past armies of "cardboard monsters" with annoying, pointlessly mechanized googly eyes, and what must be two yards of insipid T-shirts with hammer-over-the-head obvious references, one is reminded of children in art classes who all have the same assignment: if any one of these stands out, or shows a modicum of identifiable wit, I'll plotz.
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Yet, sighing past armies of "cardboard monsters" with annoying, pointlessly mechanized googly eyes, and what must be two yards of insipid T-shirts with hammer-over-the-head obvious references, one is reminded of children in art classes who all have the same assignment: if any one of these stands out, or shows a modicum of identifiable wit, I'll plotz.
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Judge Judy would plotz if she knew what I paid for my recumbent.
This Just In: Leave of Absence Announcement! (and Friday Fun Quiz!) BikeSnobNYC 2010
skipvia commented on the word plotz
"Chicken salad so delicious, you could plotz."
October 7, 2007
mollusque commented on the word plotz
For years I thought this meant "collapse". Then I found out it meant "burst". Now I see in OED2 that it can mean "To sit down wearily; to flop; to slouch; to loaf," so I was right to begin with.
November 15, 2008
mortone commented on the word plotz
Plotz: from Yiddish, meaning to drop like a stone and be really dead. That it sounds just like the English word "plots" (as in funeral plots, not as in story lines) is probably coincidental. Probably.
July 8, 2009