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n.  the rumble of an airplane motor, as described in the novel Ned Mouse Breaks Away by Tim Wynne-Jones.


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n.  the sound of “American bombers” flying past, as described in After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese by Lady Borton.


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n.  the sound of an automobile engine, as described in Rookie Dad: Fun and Easy Exercises and Games for Dads and Babies in Their First Year by Susan Fox.


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n.  the sound of an automobile engine, as described in the novel No Place by Kay Haugaard.


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n.  the “sound of a sports car engine” (Leslie Glass, Over His Dead Body: A Novel of Sweet Revenge).


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


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interj.  an interjection by a merchant from the imaginary “Lanternland,” as in the novel Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais.



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