Usually means: Fall rapidly in value, amount.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word plummet:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. plummet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plummet: Merriam-Webster
  3. plummet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plummet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plummet: Collins English Dictionary
  6. plummet: Vocabulary.com
  7. Plummet, plummet: Wordnik
  8. plummet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. plummet: Wiktionary
  10. plummet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. plummet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. plummet: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Plummet, plummet: Dictionary.com
  14. plummet (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. plummet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Plummet (group): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Plummet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. plummet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. plummet: Rhymezone
  20. plummet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. plummet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. plummet: FreeDictionary.org
  23. plummet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. plummet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. plummet: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plummet: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plummet: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Plummet: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plummet: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See plummeted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (archaic, nautical) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.
noun:  (archaic) Hence, any weight.
noun:  (archaic) A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines).
noun:  A violent or dramatic fall.
noun:  (figuratively) A decline; a fall; a drop.
verb:  (intransitive) To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.

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