rrrrrrrr.

n.  the buzzer at a basketball game, as described in I Love Being the Enemy by Reggie Miller.


n.  the creaking of a falling tree, as described in Time Heals No Wounds: The Agony of the Real War in Vietman—the Grunt’s War—Told by a Soldier Who Lived Through It by Jack Leninger.

RRRrrrrr.

n.  the cry of the Incredible Hulk, as discussed in the story “What Color is Jesus” by James McBride (anthologized in Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural by Claudine C. O’Hearn).

rrrrrrrr.

n.  the mutterings of talking in one’s sleep.

<He’s talking in his sleep in that cave of his.  Saying something like rrrrrrrr.  Tia is saying rrrrrrrr too.  Be quiet, Tia.  It’s nothing.  —Amos Oz, A Perfect Peace.>

n.  the noise of a chainsaw.

<[My yellow horse] Butterscotch was a little skittish all day, ‘cause he didn’t like it when the saw would go off.  Rrrrrrrr!—it made all that noise, and it scared him half to death.  —Amarillo Slim Preston, Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived.>

n.  the noise of a stuck automobile clutch, as described in the novel In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd.

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