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ooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo.
n.  the theme from the film “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” as transcribed on amcgltd.com.


ooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo.
n.  the first seven notes from the theme to the game show “Jeopardy,” as transcribed on EchoJournal.org.


ooo-oo-oo.
n.  the sound of the letter O.

<We’ll open a little hole at the end of the round egg to show how the O-noise runs out all thin, ooo-oo-oo.  —Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories.>

Ooo-ooo ooo-oooo OOOOO.
interj.  a monkey-like shriek.

<Suddenly, Mr. Krupp sprang off his desk and began swinging from the fluorescent light fixtures.  “Ooo-ooo ooo-oooo OOOOO!” he shrieked, leaping from one side of the room to the other.  —Dav Pilkey, The Adventures of Captain Underpants: An Epic Novel.>

ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.
n.  the mournful, repetitive call of the White-Faced Storm-Petrel bird, uttered in breeding colonies, as described in The Handbook of Bird Identification for Europe and the Western Palearctic by Mark Beaman.



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