gunomatopoeia

brrrrrrr stutter

2011-09-09T00:03:00.000-07:00

brrrrrrr-stutter / brrrrrrr-ˈstə-tər /

1. intr. & tr.v. To speak or utter with a spasmodic repetition or prolongation of sounds.
2. n. The act or habit of brrrrrrr-stuttering.
3. int. representing the sound of an uzi.

2011 Nicki Minaj ft. Lil Wayne "Roman's Revenge (Remix)," 1:53
[Lil Wayne] Drink drink in my hand with the world in the other / The uzi go brrrrrrr-stutter

blick

2010-08-18T11:50:00.000-07:00

blick/brick

1. int. representing the sound of a gunshot.

2. v. to fire a gun, resulting in the "blick" sound.

2010 Rick Ross ft. Styles P., "Blowin' Money Fast (BMF)," 3:27, F-ck around and knock the emblem on the caddy off/four shooters buggin' out, blickin' atcha caddy doors.

waka flocka

2010-08-12T13:16:00.000-07:00

waka flocka

1. int. representing the sound of a gunshot. variation of baka baka

2. n. part of the stage name of rapper Juaquin Malphurs (Waka Flocka Flame)

2010, Waka Flocka Flame, "Hard in da Paint," passim, see, e.g., comment from KevinGrantify: "By the end of this video, I thought I got shot, twice..."

bap

2009-11-09T10:23:00.000-08:00

blap /bɒp/ int. (also blap /blɒp/, brap /rɒp)

1. Representing the sound of a gunshot.

Assassin, "Gunshot," passim, see, e.g., 0:37 "Dat a di rifle, yuh better get flat / Den... BLAP! / When it a buss like a tunda clap / A di - an a duppy gun dat / Whe it guh suh... BAP!... BAP! BAP!"

boom

2009-11-08T22:11:00.000-08:00

boom, int.
1. representing the sound of a gunshot
[Middle English bomben, imitative of a loud noise]

1992 Ice Cube, "When Will They Shoot," 1:30, It's a great day for genocide (What's that?) / That's the day all the niggaz died / They killed JFK in '63/ So what the fuck you think they'll do to me? / But I'm the O.G. and I bust back (boom boom) / Bust back (Boom boom!) / peel a cap (BOOM BOOM!)

bong

2009-11-01T11:06:00.000-08:00

bong, int.
1. representing the sound of a gunshot; often used by Sean Price

2005, Sean Price, "Boom Bye Yeah," 2:49 Put ya hands where my eyes can see/ Yo, this ain't Busta Rhymes, "Bong," bust a nine, "Bong"

2007, Sean Price, "Jamaican," 1:51 Wanna fight, pah? Hold this first. "Bong Bong!"

bo

2009-10-31T14:19:00.000-07:00

bo, int.

1. representing the sound of a gunshot

2005 Juelz Santana feat. Cam'Ron and Sizzla "Shottas," passim, e.g., 0:39, All sides all guys all rise now BO! BO! BO! BO! Lick four shots now.

pop pop bang

2009-10-30T17:25:00.000-07:00

pop pop bang, int.

1. representing the sound of multiple shots fired from a 9mm

2007 David Banner feat. Akon, Lil Wayne, and Snoop Dogg "9mm," 3:07, ah you better stop that, mang, fat mouth the dogg and ima pop pop bang

gunshot

2009-10-26T18:54:00.000-07:00

gunshot /'gʌn ʃɒt /
1. n. The discharging of a gun.
2. int. (Rare) Representing the sound of a gun discharging.

1996 Bounty Killer "Suicide or Murder," 0:37, I not retreat, and me not surrender / GUNSHOT attack them like a rat in a blender / GUNSHOT them get up me put down then they send up.

bing

2009-10-25T18:34:00.000-07:00

bing, int.
1. Representing the sound of gunshot ricochet, often used by Ghostface Killah

2000 Wu-Tang Clan (Ghostface), "Hollow Bones," 3:03, Shots rang off "Bing, Boggle-De-Dum"

2009 DOOM ft. Ghostface Killah, "Angelz," 1:14, Sendin shots like check day, Fed Ex expressway/ "BOOM BOW BING!" You heard the gunplay

bam bam

2009-10-24T17:33:00.000-07:00

1. bam bam /bɔm bɔm/ int.
Representing the sound of gun fire.

1994 Notorious B.I.G., "Gimme the Loot", 3:52, Man, I throw him in the beem/ you grab the fuckin cream/ and if he starts to scream/ "BAM BAM!" have a nice dream

buck buck

2009-10-24T11:07:00.000-07:00

buck buck /bʌk bʌk/, int.
1. Representing the sound of gunshots

1987 Boogie Down Productions, "9mm Goes Bang," 1:50, But just as they put their pistols down to take a cut / Me jumped out the kitchen, went "buck! buck! buck!"

1993 KRS-One, "Return of the Boom Bap," 3:52, now Boogie-down, boogie down, boogie down produc/ wit the "buck buck buck buck buck buck BUCK!"

2002 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, "Pump Pump," 1:08, You ain't gotta listen but I'ma let you hear it / Pump Pump, Buck buck buck buck buck.

pop pop pop

2009-10-24T11:00:00.000-07:00

pop pop pop /pɒp pɒp pɒp/, int.
1. Representing the sound of gunshots

1999 Youngbloodz, "Pop, Pop, Pop," 1:13, Pop, Pop, Pop, your partner got bust / He's a goner black / The A-Town niggas want they corner back.

2001 RZA, "Glocko Pop," passim, My Glocko pop pop pop.

click clack

2009-10-24T09:01:00.000-07:00

click-clack /ˈklik-ˈklak/ int.
Etymology by alteration. (see also click-click and clack-clack)
1. Representing the sound a gunshot makes.

2008 Prodigy, Click Clack, passim, Click Clack / Rock-a-bye Baby /Click Clack / Oh you's a dead mothafucka.

booya

2009-10-24T08:44:00.000-07:00

boo-ya /ˈbü-ˈyaə/ int.
1. Representing the sound that a shotgun makes.

1991 Cypress Hill, "Hand on the Pump", 0:35 Finger on the trigger with my hands up on the steel/ Lettin out a bullet / This is going booya...
Ibid., 1:59, When I see ya punk ass/ I'm gonna getcha / Fucking do ya/ Shotgun go booyaa

pump pump

2009-10-24T07:39:00.000-07:00

pump pump /pʌmp pʌmp/, int.
1. Representing the sound of gunshots

1993 Snoop Doggy Dogg, "Pump Pump," 0:02, Pump pump pump pump pump pump.

2002 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, "Pump Pump," 1:08, You ain't gotta listen but I'ma let you hear it / Pump Pump, Buck buck buck buck buck.

brrrat

2009-10-23T23:56:00.001-07:00

brrrat /brrrāt/ int. (also blat)
1. Representing the sound of a gunshot.
2. Representing the sound of Chinese New Year.

2006 Clipse, "Chinese New Year", 00:05, Judging by my steel I got something to do here / Give up the money or the angel cries two tears / Front of your crib sounding like Chinese New Year / brrrat, brrrat, brrrat, brrrat, brrrat, brrrat, ka-ka-kat, kat.

2006 Nas, "Money Over Bullshit," 00:14, BRRRRAT cars peel/ the east coast cartel

Cf. Urban dictionary: brrrat ("The verbalization of a machine gun noise, based on BLAT, that is used by Bloods in some cities especially on the east coast Bloods. What up Blood? brrrat, brrrrrrrreeee! SUHWOOOP")

pow

2009-10-23T21:02:00.000-07:00

pow/ pou/ int.

1. Representing the sound of gun shots.

1993, Wu-Tang Clan, "C.R.E.A.M." 1:27
"Respect mine or anger the tech-nine. Ch-ch-POW! Move from the gate now."

2004, Lethal Bizzle, "Pow (forward)" 2:37

"2-2 shoot it
8 mill shoot it
9 mill shoot it
Mac 10 shoot it
Mac 11 shoot it
12 gauge shoot it
Inch 12 a shoot it
Revelton shoot it
44 shoot it
45 shoot it
Spoil min shoot it
Tommy Gun shoot it
Lyman shoot it
Kalashnikov shoot it
AK shoot it
Gatlin shoot it
POW POW"

click click

2009-10-23T14:38:00.000-07:00

click click /klɪk klɪk/ int. (also click click click)
1. Representing the sound of gun shots.

1980 The (English) Beat, "Click Click," 0:20, Itchy finger (finger) trigger (trigger) click click / Click click click.

2006 Mobb Deep feat. Tony Yayo, "Click Click," 1:22, Aww man homey, hate to do you like this / Aww man homey, when the tooley go 'Click Click Click.'

co coi coi

2009-10-23T14:19:00.000-07:00

co coi coi /ko koi koi/ int.

1. Representing the sound of gun shots.

2002 Talib Kweli, "Gun Music", 2:37 "Co Coi Coi! the sounds of guns busting, Co Coi Coi! your heart just start pumping"

clak clak

2009-10-23T13:53:00.000-07:00

clak /klak/ int. (also clack, clak clak clak clak)

1. Representing the sound of gun shots.

2002 Talib Kweli, "Gun Music," 0:40, Co Coi Coi Clak Clak Clak Clak Clak / Gun man music never take shot back (Oh)/ Co Coi Coi Clak Clak Clak Clak Clak (Come On) / Ghetto Red Hot 'round the world you hear that (oh oh oh come on) / Co Coi Coi Clack Clak Clak Clak Clak.

2003 Ludacris feat. Chingy, I-20 & Tity Boi, "We Got," 3:13, I'll peel your CAP BACK with the BLACK MACK/ Till your BACK CRACK, cock the GAT BACK like...CLAK CLAK CLAK

2009 Jim Jones feat. Akon, "Clack Clack," 0:32, Clack clack is the sound when I bust mine / Clack clack is the sound of my Tec-9 / Clack clack is the sound when I do crime / Clack clack make you deliver at all times.

blau

2009-10-23T12:26:00.000-07:00

blau /blou/ int. (also blau blau)
1. Representing the sound of a gunshot

1995 Ol' Dirty Bastard, "Brooklyn Zoo," 1:08, How? I don't even like your mothafuckin' profile. Gimme my fuckin' shit. Ch-Chk, BLAU!

2000 Remy Ma feat. Big Pun "Ms. Martin", 2:28 "Tryin to go fast, I love to hear the guns go blast (blau, blau, blau, blau)/ I love the sounds of the shells fallin down"

2007 T.I. feat. Alfamega and Busta Rhymes, "Hurt", 0:39, "Put the gun in they mouth, tell a nigga 'talk shit now/You think you know' the gun go (BLAU!)"

See also Urban Dictionary: blaow, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blaow (definitions 4 and 6). Accord Raekwon & Ghostface Killah, Criminology, on ONLY BUILT 4 CUBAN LINX (Loud Records, 1995) ("You try to flee but you got smoked up by the doorway (blaow! blaow! blaow!)").

2. The sound of a lyrical attack with the force and violence of a gunshot

1999 Gang Starr "Full Clip" 2:28 "Attackin' like a slick Apache/ lyrics are trigger happy/ blowin back your wig piece just for the way you lookin at me/ cock back blau! I hit you up right now/ I don't know why so many of you wanna be thugs anyhow"

bullet! bullet!

2009-10-23T12:03:00.000-07:00

bull-et! bull-et! (bool'it / bool'it)

1. n. Referring to metal projectiles in the shape of a pointed cylinder or a ball expelled from a firearm, especially a rifle or handgun.
2. int. Representing the sound of such projectiles being expelled.

[French boulette, diminutive of boule, ball, from Old French, from Latin bulla.]

2007 Uncle Murda, "Bullet Bullet" - passim (see esp. 2:38 "Bullet! Bullet! Bullet! Wheeee! Bullet Bullet! Bullet Bullet!)

rat tat tat tat

2009-10-23T11:27:00.000-07:00

rat tat tat tat /ræt tæt tæt tæt/, int. (also rat-tat-tat-tat)
1. Representing the sound of gunshots

1992 Dr. Dre, "Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat", 1:22, Rat-tat-tat-tat tat ta tat like that / and I never hesitate to put a nigga on his back.

1998 (released) 2Pac, "Changes," 4:08, I always got to worry 'bout the pay back / Some punk that I roughed up way back / Comin' back after all these years / Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh.

bang

2009-10-23T11:13:00.000-07:00

bang bang /bæŋ/, int. (also bang)
1. Representing the sound of gunshots

1966 Cher, "Bang Bang", 0:26, Bang bang, he shot me down / Bang bang, I hit the ground.

1987 Boogie Down Productions, "9mm Goes Bang", 0:23, Wha da da dang, wha da da da dang / Listen to my 9 millimeter go bang.

2008 Lil Wayne feat. Jae Millz & Gudda Gudda, "Ban Bang", 0:42 You fuckin with the drum major let me play you the anthem/ bang bang bang bang call it heavy metal/ i say bang bang bitch i make you feel every letter

baka baka

2009-10-23T11:01:00.000-07:00

baka baka /bɑkɑ bɑkɑ/, int. (also baka baka baka)
1. Representing the sound of gunshots

1994 Notorious B.I.G., "Gimme the Loot", 3:07, When I rock her and drop her I'm taking her door knockers / And if she's resistant "baka! baka! baka!"

blam blam

2009-10-23T10:37:00.000-07:00

blam blam /blɑm blɑm/ or /blæm blæm/, int. (also blam, blam blam blam)
1. Representing the sound of gunshots

1967 The Valentines, "Blam Blam Fever," 0:44, The simplest thing is blam blam blam / What is this in our little island?

1993 Snoop Doggy Dogg, "Pump Pump", 0:52, Blam blam, blam to them all / Listen to the shots from my nigga Doggy Dogg.

2000 Talib Kweli feat. Dead Prez, "Sharp Shooters," 0:31, See I'll be like John Wilkes Booth was to Lincoln, Blam!