Plop

Plop is an onomatopoeic term for the sound of an object falling onto a surface or onto water.

It may also refer to:

• "Plop", the nickname of fictional Pete Miller, a character from the US television seriesThe Office
• Kabouter Plop, the eponymous hero of the Belgian children's TV and comic strip series
• Plop, the Hungarian name for Plopi village, Valea Ierii Commune, Cluj County, Romania
• Plop, a slang word for feces
• Plop, a village in Coşcalia Commune, Căuşeni district, Moldova
• Plop, a village in Ghelari Commune, Hunedoara County, Romania
• Plop (owl), the main character in The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson
• Plop, Donduşeni, a commune in Donduşeni district, Moldova
• Plop: The Hairless Elbonian, a Dilbert-spinoff comic strip by Scott Adams
• Plop!, a self-described "New Magazine of Weird Humor!" comic book published by DC Comics that ran from Sep/Oct 1973 to Nov/Dec 1976
• Plop-Ştiubei, a commune in Căuşeni district, Moldova
• The name of a post-apocalyptic novel, written by Rafael Pinedo (Argentina).

PLoP refers to:

• Pattern Languages of Programs, an annual computer science conference
• PloP boot manager (see Comparison of boot loaders), makes it possible to boot from CD-ROM or USB without bios support

PLOP refers to:

• PLate OPtimizer, the CAD program for optimization of telescope mirror support cells to reduce cell induced errors.