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n.  a loud “cracked” echo of someone’s name which pulls one “like a magnet,” as in The Professor’s Daughter: A Novel by Emily Raboteau; see KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK.


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n.  a sound that transports one “into the cold,” lightyears past planet Earth and the Milky Way galaxy, as described in The Professor’s Daughter: A Novel by Emily Raboteau.


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n.  a sound that “looks” to one with synesthesia like “KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK.  It looks like gravity ripping.  It looks like the jets on a spaceship” (Emily Raboteau, The Professor’s Daughter: A Novel).


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n.  a reverberating echo of someone’s name that “looks like the tail on a shooting star” to one with synesthesia in The Professor’s Daughter: A Novel by Emily Raboteau.


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n.  the sound of a body blown backwards by gunfire, as in the comic book Darkness by Joe Benitez and Joe Weems.


kksss.
n.  a lizard’s hissing exclamation.

<Want ta pull me tail off, steal me den, abeat me up?  Kksss!  —Brian Jacques, Salamandastron.>


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