kjn.

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

kk kkk kkkkk.

n.  a “scratchy sound,” as heard through headphones in the novel On the Reef by J.C. Greenburg.

kkk.

n. the sound of the letter k, as described in American Dream Series 2: I Can Read! by Sheila Goodfriend.  (This is a very rare spelling of the k-sound, likely due to its similarity to the famous acronym of the Ku Klux Klan.)  See also k-k-k, kkkk.


n.  the repeated sound of a fatal computer error.

<I was done computing for the day so I decided to shut down, but I accidentally restarted.  Then, just as it was about to go into the desktop it froze on the loading screen.  It was making a sort of kkk....kkk....kkk....kkk sound.  Then the screen turned blue and said “fatal error: dumping physical memory.”  —TheGameCreators.com.>

KKK-K-K-KKK.

n.  the staccato call of Lagden’s Bush-Shrike, as described in Shrikes and Bush-Shrikes by Tony Harris.

kkkdttttkkkk.

n.  the sound of a scratched record (“a sound now so rare [it] might make people jump with recognition”), as sung by Missy Elliott and transcribed in We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock by Gerri Hirshey; see also kkkkkkkkk ktkkt, kkkkkkkk.

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