fft.

n.  the sound of exploding ammunition.

<The crackling of the flames and the “vrrp” and “fft” of the exploding ammunition seemed to fill the troops with inordinate glee.  —Johannes Steinhoff, Messerschmitts Over Sicily: Diary of a Luftwaffe Fighter Commander.>

n.  the sound of suppressed laughter, as in the novel The FarCall Project by RedTurtle.

fft fft.

n.  a shooing sound, as from a cat.

<“All right, we accept your apology for all that barking,” Mr. Smedley sniffed.  “But run along.  Fft! Fft!”  —George Selden, Harry Cat’s Pet Puppy.> <She ended these words with a “Fft! Fft!” and, stroking her whiskers, took up her stand, with a defiant air, between Sugar and Fire.  —Georgette Leblanc (Madame Maurice Maeterlinck), The Children’s Blue Bird.>

fft fft fft.

n.  the sound of a projectile penetrating armor.

<The attack came from the right, some kind of projectile spanging into Mercy’s armor with a fft fft fft sound, at a rate of around four a second.  —“Six Days in Sanjii,” UnknownWorlds.com.>

fhd.

n.  the title of a visual poem by Mike Cannell.

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