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flumps

present tense third-person singular of flump
as in plops
to throw or set down clumsily or casually for now, just flump the rug on the floor—we'll unroll it later

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  • So much for doing good when capitalism plops an offer at your feet.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Outside, seagulls squawk; a crane lifts sand and plops it on a boat.
    Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • Jenkins then connected on a pair of TD tosses -- 20 yards to Paul Rios and a three-yarder to Belton, the latter with just eight ticks left before intermission.
    Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Spoken shade amongst the group is as plentiful as actual shade is absent in LA’s concrete desert, and the trio tosses it around with the casual dominance of Shohei Ohtani.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Flumps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flumps. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.

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