<He eased the pressure off slowly until just enough of the tiny parasite became visible. Crrk! His right thumbnail spliced it in two with a satisfying crack. He flicked the tiny corpse on to the floor, noticed the red stain of his own blood which it had left on his victorious thumb. —Iain McDowall, A Study in Death.>
n. the static sound of an ambulance radio; see brrk.
CRRK CRRK CRRK.
n. the raspy, duck-like call of the Eastern Gray Squirrel, as described in Squirrels: A Wildlife Handbook by Kim Long.ul
crrk crrrk.
n. the noise of a squeaky chair, as described in Call It Sleep: A Novel by Henry Roth.
crrk-crrk-crrk.
n. the repeated croaking of the Marsh Owl, as described in Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Dale A. Zimmerman.
crrkkk.
(also crk, crrk.) n. the sound of a mirror cracking, as in the graphic novel Soul Air by Angel Hill.
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