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crepitation

(n): the sharp sound of snapping noises
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16 days ago chained_bear said:

See also crepitus.

5 months ago yarb said:

...was driving his Yakima jailors crazy by means of incomprehensible crepitations, nerve signals, spirals of outgoing light and feats of ventriloquism that imitated pistol shots and sirens.

- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor

7 months ago chained_bear said:

"...feeling the spike and the wound and the crepitation of bone..."
--O'Brian, The Truelove, 122

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