verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To flop down wearily. intransitive
2. 2
   To faint. intransitive
3. 3
   To fall down dead. intransitive

Etymology

From Yiddish פּלאַצן (platsn, “to split, crack, burst, explode”).

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