plunk down

The company said it was the third flight of the mission’s first stage booster, which — following separation — would plunk down on the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship moored in the Pacific.

The Kings were plunked down in a place that hated the cold, yet they made ice cool and won two Stanley Cup championships.

“There’s still a small population of people who are willing to plunk down the money to buy the Enquirer at the supermarket,” Levine said.

Heywood is a transplanted hedge fund mogul from California who, last year, plunked down more than $6 million to fund signature gathering operations to put six initiatives on the ballot.

But the passengers who plunked down $1,800 to $100,000 and boarded the ship at Port Miami in Florida on Jan. 27, said nothing could have prepared them for the vessel’s sheer scale.