0 present participle of plonk
2 to play a musical instrument, usually not very well but often loudly:
The cost of developing land in the older cities is vastly more expensive than taking a green field and plonking a factory on it.
It is no use announcing plonking targets and then planting huge areas insensitively.
The result would involve plonking a very large and inappropriate development into that very sensitive site in an historic fishing town, which would be to the detriment of the community.