pocketa-pocketa
/ˌpɒkɪtəˈpɒkɪtə/(also pocketta-pocketta, pockety-pockety)
exclamation
Representing a series of rapidly repeated percussive sounds, such as those made by an internal-combustion engine.
noun
A series of rapidly repeated percussive sounds, such as those made by an internal-combustion engine, the wheels of a train, distant shooting, or the like.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in James Thurber (1894–1961), writer and cartoonist. Imitative.
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