brrk.

n.  the garbled noise of ambulance radio static; see also crrk.

<Brrk!  Crrk!  Truck five twenty-two, code six, a two car head-on where the Coast Highway meets Five in Capistrano Beach.  —Kim Stanley Robinson, The Gold Coast.>

BRRK BRRK.

n.  the jarring ring of a telephone; see also brrr brrrr, brrp brrp.

<BRRK BRRK.  My waking thought was that the guy who invented the telephone ought to have been publicly boiled in his own brainwater.  Outside the bedroom window, dawn was just barely making headway against dark.  If manufactured noise at such an hour isn’t an offense against human nature, I don’t know what is.  BRRK BRRK.  —Ivan Doig, Ride With Me, Mariah Montana.>

brrk brrk brrk.

n.  a telephone busy signal.

<He dialed again; got only brrk, brrk, brrk.  He dialed two other numbers, hoping to find someone free for lunch.  No one was.  He dialed Max again: brrk, brrk, brrk.  —William Gaddis, The Recognitions.>

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