(phonetics) a speech sound made by stopping the flow of air coming out of the mouth and then suddenly releasing it, for example /t/ and /p/ in top
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plosive adjective
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for plosive is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is plosive a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, plosive is tagged as noun.
Does plosive appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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