rrrrr.

n.  the rumbling of the ground as an island crumbles into the sea, as described in the novel The Mysterious Island by Tony Abbott.


n.  the sound of a dump truck engine, as described in Anastasia Has the Answers by Lois Lowry.


n.  the sound of someone’s emotions getting the better of him, as in the comic book Electric Fear.


n.  the sound of the letter r, as discussed in Let’s Read: A Complete Month-by-Month Activities Program for Beginning Readers by Elizabeth Crosby Stull; see also rrr, rrrr, RRRR, rrrrrr, rrrrrrr.

<He rattled his rrrrrs, sounding like the tail of a diamondback about to strike.  —Sid Fleischman, Disappearing Act.> <Make all the “disgusting” sounds you weren’t supposed to make but did.  Roll your rrrrr’s.  Spit.  Even swear a little.  —Ilene Segalove, Snap Out of It: 101 Ways to Get Out of Your Rut & into Your Groove.>

RRRRR.

n.  the tentative title of a “hotel-of-crooks” movie script by Alfred Hitchcock, as discussed in Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick McGilligan.

rrrrr.

n.  the trill of a star in the sky, singing to “followers stumbling through the night” (Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Seeing Stone).

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