bztbzt-bzt-bzzzt.

n.  the spluttering hiss of a wireless spark gap transmitter.

<Reports on the status of the Columbia and Shamrock rapidly flew through the air and electrified the small crowd of bystanders hearing the bztbzt-bzt-bzzzt of the wireless spark gap transmitter.  —John P. King, Highlands: New Jersey.>

bzz bzz bzz.

n.  the “lazy” sound of insects “among the poppies,” as described in Prairie Soul: Finding Grace in the Earth Beneath My Feet by Jeffrey A. Lockwood.

bzz bzz bzzt.

n.  “game over,” as in a video game.

<All his mind would play was “game over.”  Game over.  Bzz.  Bzz.  Bzzt.  Again and again.  Game over.  —Greg Moody, Two Wheels: A Cycling Murder Mystery.>

bzz bzz zzk zzk zk kzrp zzrz.

n.  the buzz of a dying cell phone signal, as in the graphic novel Bob the Hamster by James Paige; see also bzzzk, crkzzzz, kzzzrt, crkzzzz.

bzz-bzz-bzz.

n.  the call of the Bachman’s warbler.

<The Bachman’s warbler was the rarest songbird in North America.  From the black cowl, Finney knew that it was a male.  As he watched, the bird gave its distinctive call: a low, grating bzz-bzz-bzz.  Then it took wing and vanished from his field of vision.  —John Altman, The Watchmen.>

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