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A sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork
Answer for the clue "A sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork ", 7 letters:
popping
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Popping \Pop"ping\, a. & n. from Pop . Popping crease . (Cricket) See under Crease .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. bulge outward; "His eyes popped" [syn: protrude , pop out , bulge , bulge out , bug out , come out ] hit a pop-fly; "He popped out to shortstop" make a sharp explosive noise; "The cork of the champagne bottle popped" fire a weapon with a loud explosive ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Popping is a street dance and one of the original funk styles that came from California during the late 1960s–1970s. First seen in the 1968 movie '' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang '' during a scene where actress and singer Sally Anne Howes acts as a music box ...
Usage examples of popping.
They plucked leaves and berries from poisonberry bushes, brushed casually past the darters ignoring the poppings and the darts that spanged onto their hard skins and glanced off harmlessly.
It took forever to get the international operator on the line, and a longer time yet of vague electronic poppings and buzzings, before he heard the click of connection, followed by a faint ringing.
It took forever to get the international operator on the line, and a longer time yet of vague electronic poppings and buzzings, before he heard the click of connection, followed by a faint ringing.
At night, lying -quietly in her bed, Ayla became aware of mysterious sounds that seemed to be coming from deep within the earth: grindings, poppings, chortlings, gurglings.
At night, lying -quietly in her bed, Ayla became aware of mysterious sounds that seemed to be coming from deep within the earth: grindings, poppings, chortlings, gurglings.
But even through the treated glass of the windshield I could see and sense the atrocious lancings and poppings in the ruined sky.
There were sounds, but he knew they were normal ones, of the kind he could hear at home in the dark night watches, an intermittent symphony of small crackings and poppings made by boards, flooring, and other structural members as they cooled.
The stone walls stopped many of the bullets, but others jangled the glass out of the windows, chewed at the door frame, and made dull poppings as they tore through the roof.
But, as the gusts strengthened, the flames grew, streaming back into the tunnel, sharp poppings coming from within.