<There was a click and then nothing: Jackal listened to the bzzz of the open line for almost five seconds before she realized that Crichton was no longer there. —Kelley Eskridge, Solitaire.>
v. to wander.
<Bzzz into the trap field and a devastating explosion spread silently across you. —Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune.>
BZZZ BZZZ.
n. bursts of radio static.
<The radio spat forth a strange news report between bursts of static: BZZZ BZZZ ... “freak tornado hurled the cabin cruiser” ... BZZZ BZZZ ... “multiple injuries” ... BZZZ BZZZ ... “Pacific Coast Highway” ... BZZZ BZZZ ... “closed in both directions.” —Neal Shusterman, Thief of Souls: Book Two of the Star Shards Trilogy.>
bzzz bzzz.
n. the ringing of a cell phone set to “vibrate.”
<Then we hear the buzzing again, and he thinks the bee has traveled into his pants! So now he’s jumping and flailing around with his pants down, and it’s still going bzzz, bzzz. Turns out his cell phone was in the pocket of his shorts, and he had set it to buzz. —Alice Cooper, quoted in My Best Day in Golf: Celebrity Stories of the Game They Love by Jonathon Clay.>
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