BRRRRRRR BRRRRRRRR.

n.  the ringing of a house telephone.

<BRRRRRRR BRRRRRRRR!  Is that the house phone?  It certainly sounds like our house phone.  Well, it’s not for me, anyway.  Nobody calls me on the house-phone line, not now that I’ve got my cell phone.  Phhhh, I’m not answering it.  BRRRRRRR BRRRRRRRR!  BRRRRRRR BRRRRRRRR!  BRRRRRRR BRRRRRRRR! I’m still not answering it.  It can ring as much as it likes.  BRRRRRRR BRRRRRRRR!  BRRRRRRR BRRRRRRRR!  BRRRRRRR BRRRRRRRR!  —Grace Dent, LBD: It’s a Girl Thing.>

brrrrrrr brrrrrrrr.

n.  the sound of a revving motorcycle engine.

<One of them raced his engine brrrrrrr brrrrrrrr, and Meg pulled the Mossberg shotgun out of the leather sheath and pointed it above her head.  The bikers abruptly turned away, tore along the river bed and around a curve and out of sight.  —David Cole, Stalking Moon.>

brrrrrrr-rrp.

n.  the perpetual drone of a drum roll; see also brrrm.

<With Salem, he showed her how to stutter the stick on the drumstick.  “Hold it loose,” he told her, “that’s the secret.  Pretend your wrist is rubber.”  He showed her: Brrrrrrr-rrp.  On the third try, she did it.  —Jerry Spinelli, Report to the Principal’s Office!>

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