rrrrrrr.

n.  the warning growl of a pig, as described in The Story So Far: Play Therapy Narratives by Ann Cattanach.


n.  the whine of a German motorcycle engine, as described in They Were All Young Kids: The Story of Lieutenant Jim Flowers and the First Platoon, Company C, 712 Tank Battalion, on Hill 122 by Aaron C. Elson.


v.  to operate at such a fast pace that everything is a blur.

<[M]aybe we truly are wired and just go “rrrrrrr.”  —Jim Murphy quoted in So What!  The Good, The Mad, and the Ugly: The Official Metallica Illustrated Chronicle

rrrrrrr rrrrrr.

n.  the hum of a machine “like something out of science-fiction movie” that dispenses cobalt treatments (Robert Byrne, McGoorty: A Pool Room Hustler).

<The first time they switched on the machine it felt like my ears were all of a sudden stopped up, there was no air, I had no feeling.  I was tied down, so all I could do was lie there and listen to the Rrrrrrr, Rrrrrr, and look at the spot on the machine that the rays come out of, although they are invisible.  —Robert Byrne, McGoorty: A Pool Room Hustler.>

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