Plumbet

Plumbet: verb. When a plumber plummets from a very high point or into a very low point or a combination of both. Plumbetting is a very common word, since in some countries, the plumbing on high-rise buildings is accessible only from the outside and so a plumber has to clamber his way up before he actually starts to plumb, both of which is equally dangerous when done on a high-rise building. The first recorded case of a plumbet, however, did not come from a tall building, but from space. In fact, the first plumbet started on June the sixth, 2006 from the International Space Station itself and took several days, during which the plumber involved was able to give his exact coordinates and was caught exactly seventy two hours later in a giant pool of bubble-wrap prepared by the national fire brigade of Uzbekistan, which the ISS happened to be flying over at the beginning of the plumbet.