rrmmbl.

n.  the rumble of the first tumbling boulder of a deadly landslide, as in the comic book Amazing Adventures #8 by Bill Everett.

rrmmmbll.

n.  the thundering footstep of a giant monster, as in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz.

rrmmmm rrmmmm.

n.  the sound of military “tanks and halftracks winding up,” as described in A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It by Gerald Astor.

rrmmmmm.

n.  a “wet growling noise,” as described in the novel Tourist Season by Carl Hiassen.

rrr.

interj.  an expression that the temperature is uncomfortably cold; see also br, brr, brrr, brrrr, brrrrrrr, brrrrrrrr, rrrrr.

<Rrr!  I’m cold, monkey!  You’re not.  You’re working.  —Thomas Harlan, Wasteland of Flint.>

interj.  the sound of shivering.

<Rrr!  I’m cold, monkey!  —Thomas Harlan, Wasteland of Flint.>

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