brrp.

n. machine gun fire.

<“All hell broke loose,” says Hanson, “grenades, rifle shots and even the brrp of a Nambu [machine gun].  —Gerald Astor, Crisis in the Pacific: The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them.>

n.  a mother cat’s greeting to her kittens.

<A mother’s direct interaction with her kittens involves giving the ‘brrp’ call as she approaches them.  —Dennis C. Turner, The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behavior.>

n.  the “endless hullabaloo” of a cell block, reverberating through life beyond the confines of prison (Peter Blauner, The Last Good Day).

<The noise from the cell block still ringing in his ears when he came home at night.  Brrp.  The fights in the commissary lines, the turds tossed out between bars, the razors taped to the ends of toothbrushes.  Brrp.  The need to win every fight, no matter how small.  The cold fact that you could never let them see you weak or wavering.  Brrp.  The wife nattering at him because the only vacation they could afford was a crappy cabin without proper toilets or heat in New Hampshire.  Brrp.  His sons refusing to stop grab-assing in the backseat.  Brrp.  —Peter Blauner, The Last Good Day.>

n.  the sound of something being switched off like a television.

<I’m nothing but this image [of my television roles].  A push of the button and—brrp!—I’m gone.  —Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance.>

brrp bllp.

n.  a cough, as in Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac.

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