Meaning of pocketa-queep | Babel Free

Definitions

A sound from a machine, usually when in need of a tune-up.

Examples

“He sprang to the machine, which was now going pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep.”

“TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! went the Odor Extractors.”

“At the instant Mr. Smitty saw the woman, smoke ballooned out from the dual tailpipes of his hurtling car, and the engine's sound changed to an unsettling pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep.”

“It is like the old joke about the man who is called in to repair a gigantic but malfunctioning piece of machinery that is emitting a Thurberian pocketa-queep instead of its normal pocketa-pocketa.”

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