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1836 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 27 July Down I came chewallop..and overset the chair.

1844 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship (ed. 2) i. 18 Kerslash I went, rite over old Miss Stallinses spinnin wheel, onto the floor!

1844 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship (ed. 2) xv. 155 Kerslosh he went, rite into a big tub full of cold water.

1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. 88 We drew up co-wallop right afore Jase's house.

1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. 154 Ca-smash went the chair.

1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. 183 The curtain cum down ca-chunk.

1850 Americans at Home I The dugout hadn't leaped more'n six lengths from the bank, afore..ke-souse I went.

1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine 2 Then, again, you'll go in co-slush.

1855 Spirit of Times 29 Sept. 387/1 And the fust thing you knows he falls and down he comes kerflumix.

1858 S. P. Avery Harp of Thousand Strings 44 He fell ‘kerslap’ upon the hot goose of the pressman!

1873 ‘Josiah Allen's Wife’ My Opinions & Betsey Bobbet's 99 I fell kerslap over a rail that lay in the grass.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxiii. 202 Jis' den, 'long come de wind en slam it to, behine de chile, ker-blam!

1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 85 They hoists him over and lets him go ker-whop.

1896 E. Glanville Kloof Yarns ii. 12 I pitched head first—ker smash—in a sudden fit o' dizziness.

1897 Outing 30 127/2 Across the lower end of the swamp..back we go kerslosh-kersplash for another quarter of a mile.

1899 F. T. Bullen Way Navy 52 Down came the bunch of sacks kerslam on the deck below.

1903 Outing 43 83/1 The sound made by the water when the frog dives, we used to express when we were boys, by the word ‘kerplunk’.

1908 Magnet 1 1 ‘Ker-woosh!’ ejaculated the junior, as he sprawled on the floor over Harry Wharton's legs. ‘What's that in the way?’

1923 Public Opinion 15 June 565/1 With both feet set down kerplunk he closed the interview.

1926 F. M. Ford Man could stand Up ii. iv. 164 Kerumph—the wagons of coal would fly over until we recalled our planes.

1935 H. G. Wells Things to Come xi. 96 Can I go when I grow up? And see the other side of the moon! And plump back ker-splosh! into the sea!

1937 New Masses 26 Oct. 18/1 Their [sc. Hollywood journalists'] vernacular divides the failures into three subdivisions: flop, flopperoo, and ker-plunk.

1939 T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Bk. Pract. Cats 17 Growltiger to his vast surprise was forced to walk the plank. He who a hundred victims had driven to that drop, At the end of all his crimes was forced to go ker-flip, ker-flop.

1939 J. Cary Mister Johnson 41 I go trow him..In de river Thames, kersplash.

1942 Z. N. Hurston Dust Tracks on Road xii. 230 Ker-blam-er-lam-er-lam! And dat was de last of Brer Engine-driving Monk.

1959 M. Gilbert Blood & Judgement vi. 59 The boat hit the surface with a solid ker-splash.

1963 Punch 30 Jan. 178/2 The boot..kerplonked to the carpet as straight and true as Newton's apple.

1963 New Yorker 29 June 26 That's why I nearly went kerplunk when you walked out of here with him.

1970 Observer 15 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 36/4 They wear..extraordinary bathing costumes with Mighty Mouse zigzags across their chests, so that one half-expects them to rush about the beach shouting ‘Pow!’ and ‘Zap!’ and ‘Kerrump!’