BRRRRRRR.

n.  the ringing of a football coach’s whistle, as described in The Last Street Fighter by Wayne Normis.

brrrrrrr.

n.  the ringing of an alarm clock, as in the Beatles’ song “A Day in the Life.”

<He counted down and on bar twenty-four he hit the alarm clock, Brrrrrrr!  It was just a period of time, an arbitrary length of bars, which was very Cage thinking.  —Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now.>

BRRRRRRR.

n.  the ringing of an alarm clock, as in the novel Swamp! by Joe Pachinko.

brrrrrrr.

n.  the sputtering of an airplane engine.

<One of his favorite pastimes was to race around the waiting room at KFVD, a room ringed with couches, with one foot up on the couches and the other on the floor, his arms outstretched, and making a “brrrrrrr” sound, pretending he was an airplane.  —Joe Klein, Woody Guthrie: A Life.>

brrrrrrr brrrrrr.

n.  the ringing of a doorbell.

<There was a bellpush and I pushed, and brrrrrrr brrrrrr sounded down the hall inside.  —Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange.>

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