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n.  the sound of a “little film screen” coming down from the ceiling, as described in Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines by Bill Hicks.


n.  the sound of a helicopter engine.

<With a ni-cad battery, the engine won’t go RRRRRRRRRR, RRRRRrrrrr, rrrrrrrrrr, rrrrr, rrr, rr, r, r, -----, like it does when the battery dies trying to start a car on a cold morning.  Instead, it will go RRRRRRRRRR, RRRRRRRRRR, RRRRRRRR, RRRRRRRR, RRRRRRRR, -----.  Once a ni-cad has lost so much charge that it can no longer motor the starter, it won’t have enough charge left to power anything else either.  —R. Randall Padfield, Learning to Fly Helicopters.>

n.  the sound of a Lamborghini engine.

<All the guys at nursery school talked about Lamborghinis, and when they played cars they played Lamborghinis, saying “Rrrrrrrrrr” loudly in their throats as they crawled across the floor.  —Lois Lowry, Attaboy, Sam!>

n.  the sound of a sports car shifting gears.

<We would zip around the corner, and he would shift it into another gear—Rrrrrrrrrr.  I’m trying to pray and read my Bible while lunging back and forth as Dave plays with the automatic gears.  —Joyce Meyer, Help Me, I’m Married!>

rrrrrrrrrr rrrrrr.

n.  a drone “like a[n automatic] dishwasher,” vocalized by someone in the throes of passion, as in the novel Gets No Love Eric Pete.

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