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s plat

  • n  a single splash
    he heard a splat as it hit the floor
  • n  a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
  • v  give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
  • v  split open and flatten for cooking
    splat fish over an open fire
  • v  flatten on impact
    The snowballs splatted on the trees

  • Peter and the boys may fly through the bedroom window; Finding Neverland takes a big, brave leap and lands splat on the sidewalk.
  • Each is marked with either a plump red tomato (the equivalent of a thumb's up) or a green splat (thumb's down) a handy visual aide.
  • To give Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) his due, there's a certain wit and splash (or should we make that splat?) in his action sequences--nice stuff with a flying motorcycle and a .
News & Articles

  • Weekly Dose: Going Dry
    High-flying forwards might just splat into a solid brick wall of defense in the 2013 Stanley Cup finals.
    June 11, 2013 - Rotoworld via Yahoo! Sports
Quotes

  • Bevan in New York Times
    It's like a paintball hits a plate-glass window - there's a big splat and it drips downward and takes three days to a week to dissipate,said Mr. Bevan, the school superintendent in Walton, Ind.
  • Caroline Zhang in Chicago Tribune
    I was a little cautious,Zhang said via telephone. "My hip hurt from taking a splat fall Thursday. And this was my first time on the main rink because my skates were lost (baggage) for three days. I could have skated better if I had known...
  • Al Gore in National Post
    Similar to betting on subprime mortgages given to people with bad credit histories, "the assumption that you can safely invest in assets that come from business models that assume carbon is free is an assumption that is about to go splat," Mr....

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