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  • verb Present participle of skronk.

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Examples

  • For the fourth set, we had fifteen minutes before we'd been asked to stop for the 11pm mark, so we went a bit frenetic: the three of us sort of did skronking noises in response to each other in a "war of the monsters" kind of way, although I admit there was probably some resemblance to the atonal end of Iron Butterfly's "In-a_Gadda-da-Vida".

    AAR: Subscape Annex @ Bickett Gallery badger 2003

  • Zorn-like skronking on brass led to battering with sticks led to pig squeals led to dual drumming.

    AAR: Subscape Annex@Glitter Factory badger 2003

  • Musically it shifts frequently between bursts of skronking guitar noise, contemplative cosmopolitan sounding guitar strums, and driving electronic bass figures.

    The Line Of Best Fit Sam Shepherd 2010

  • It features six songs of skronking algebraic post punk that balances the delicate emo of American Football or Braid with the searing punch of Faraquet, Shellac, or

    Can You See the Sunset? 2010

  • Musically it shifts frequently between bursts of skronking guitar noise, contemplative cosmopolitan sounding guitar strums, and driving electronic bass figures.

    The Line Of Best Fit Sam Shepherd 2010

  • Especially coming after 'Chunk', seemingly an exercise in finding their inner Nile Rodgers, 'You Have A Right To A Mountain Life/One Up On Yourself' proceeds to send things right off the psychedelic hook into plain cachophony, full of melody-free no wave skronking and ripped apart soloing in the midst of which Windett seems to be attempting a muezzin.

    The Line Of Best Fit Simon Tyers 2010

  • It features six songs of skronking algebraic post punk that balances the delicate emo of American Football or Braid with the searing punch of Faraquet, Shellac, or

    Can You See the Sunset? 2010

  • Thom Yorke, who contributed to Ellison's new album of broken beats, jazz skronking and 8-bit bleeps,

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Musically it shifts frequently between bursts of skronking guitar noise, contemplative cosmopolitan sounding guitar strums, and driving electronic bass figures.

    The Line Of Best Fit Sam Shepherd 2010

  • Musically it shifts frequently between bursts of skronking guitar noise, contemplative cosmopolitan sounding guitar strums, and driving electronic bass figures.

    The Line Of Best Fit Sam Shepherd 2010

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  • My mom's name for the sound of loud, saw-like sniffling due to congestion or tearfulness.

    May 4, 2014