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Fsck.
n.  the title of an album of experimental electronic music by the band Farmers Manual.


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


fsh.
n.  an eyeless fish, as in the pun “What do you call a fish with no eyes?  A fsh.”


fshhh.
(also fshhhhh.)  n.  the hiss of an aerosol-type spray can, as in the graphic novel Uzumaki 2 by Junji Ito.


interj.  a scoff.

<One [literary agent] actually wrote on the form rejection letter that the writing was “good” but the story wasn’t strong enough.  I thought, fshhh, what does she know?  —Debra Lauman, “My Adventures as a Writer.”>

FSHHH.
n.  the hiss of steam from a dry cleaner’s pressing machine, as described in Crackers by Roy Blount Jr.



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