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Onomatopoeia.

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blaow

  1. A sudden explosion, gunshot, or similar sound.
    • 1981, Katie Letcher Lyle, Dark But Full of Diamonds, page 34:
      Turtle and log explode in a gigantic, echoing splash that coincides with the BLAOW! of the gun.
    • 1998, Clyde Edgerton, Where Trouble Sleeps, page 151:
      She took the gun, loaded it, handed it back to Stephen, who got behind a chicken, brought the gun up, aimed, and pulled the trigger, ka-blaow.
    • 2003, “Poor Lil Rich”, in Curtis James Jackson III, Kevin Risto (lyrics), Kevin Risto (music), Get Rich or Die Tryin'[1], performed by 50 Cent, New York: Shady Records:
      Your wrist's bling-bling; my shit's bling-blaow.

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