Klaxoning

//ˈklæks(ə)nɪŋ// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The sounding of a klaxon.

    "There was a motor car behind them now and it blasted into the truck noise and the dust with its klaxon again and again; then flashed on lights that showed the dust like a solid yellow cloud and surged past them in a whining rise of gears and a demanding, threatening, bludgeoning of klaxoning."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of klaxon. form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"There was a motor car behind them now and it blasted into the truck noise and the dust with its klaxon again and again; then flashed on lights that showed the dust like a solid yellow cloud and surged past them in a whining rise of gears and a demanding, threatening, bludgeoning of klaxoning."

Etymology

From klaxon + -ing.

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