The word "splat", but with the "[Ker-]" prefix, thus way more awesome.
> Example man: I walked down the street, tripped, and KERSPLAT!
> Lil' Guard Duck from Pearls Before Swine: Dearest Pig, These are dark days. Days filled with empty bottles and empty hearts and an abundance of unwanted clarity. For I now see that to love is to leap an unleapable gorge and hope that a rope will be thrown from the other side. When it works, it's a spectacular feat of daring. And when it doesn't, it's kersplat. Kersplat.

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