Usually means: Falls sharply, rapidly, and steeply.
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  1. plummets: Merriam-Webster
  2. plummets: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plummets: Collins English Dictionary
  4. plummets: Vocabulary.com
  5. Plummets, plummets: Wordnik
  6. plummets: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. plummets: Wiktionary
  8. plummets: Dictionary.com
  9. plummets: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. plummets: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. plummets: Encyclopedia

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  1. plummets: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (plummet)

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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