Definition of plunge

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Plunge (n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.

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Plunge :: Plunge (v. i.) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does..
Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
Ram :: Ram (n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
Plunge :: Plunge (n.) The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse..
Mire :: Mire (v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon..
Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke..
Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
Submergence :: Submerge (v. i.) To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included..
Plunge :: Plunge (v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations..
Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out..
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps..
Immerse :: Immerse (v. t.) To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge..
Dowse :: Dowse (v. t.) To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse..
Header :: Header (n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header..
Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again..
Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.
Dip :: Dip (v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
Emerge :: Emerge (v. i.) To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity..
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