rrrrrr.

n.  the menacing snarl of a mugger.

<I hustled down the last alley on the estate, in the shadow of gigantic hedges.  “Rrrrrr!”  A knife leapt out of the dark, glinting for a split second under a dim yellow light.  Behind it, a horrible smile slithered over the face of a man with gappy teeth and long hair.  —Andrea Ashworth, Once in a House on Fire.>

RRRrrr.

n.  the sound of a city bus going by, as described in Republic: A Novel by J.B. Powell.

RRRRRR.

n.  the sound of a manual typewriter’s carriage return mechanism locking up.

<I wrote [my second novel, No] on a long sheet of teletype paper.  I got the idea from Jack Kerouac.  It kept breaking because I had a (laughter) a manual typewriter and every time I’d go this way [hit the carriage return], the machine would go RRRRRR: it would tear and then I’d have to reinsert it.  —Clarence Major, quoted in Conversations With Clarence Major by Nancy Bunge.>

rrrrrr.

n.  the sound of a whirling “portal through time” quivering and wobbling (Tony Abbott, The Magic Escapes).

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