fff fff fff.

n.  the hissing of a fighting cat, as described in Marva Collins’ Way by Marva Collins.

ffff.

adj.  fortissississimo (a musician’s directive to perform a passage very, very, very loudly).

<You’ll also hear a speaker that will take you on a joyride from p (though maybe, just maybe, it’s only one-and-a-half p’s) to ffff without crunching in on itself, like a run over beer can.  —Wayne Garcia, review of the Avalon Acoustics Arcus Loudspeaker, Fi: Magazine of Music & Sound.>

n.  the sound of the letter f; see also fff, fffffff.

<Now can you find the letter that makes ffff?  —Peggy Kaye, Games for Learning: Ten Minutes a Day to Help Your Child Do Well in School, From Kindergarten to Third Grade.>

fffff.

adj.  fortississississimo (a musician’s directive to perform a passage very, very, very, very loudly).

<The entirety of the piece [Symphony for the Near-Deaf, or Near-Deaf Experiences] is at a dynamic level of fffff.  Piece is to be repeated as many times as possible.  Instrumentation: 21 shotguns (blanks should be used), four cannons, one 50-foot stack of guitar amplifiers, two dragsters, one airplane, 256 chainsaws, five power saws, 76 police sirens, 31 rivet machines, chorus of screaming women, fireworks, and 15 sticks of lit dynamite.  —“A Catalog of Never-to-be-Recorded Musical Works.”

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