"pocketa-queep" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Imitative, from a James Thurber short story.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1939 March 18, James Thurber, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, in The New Yorker",
          "text": "He sprang to the machine, which was now going pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Dan Greenburg, Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book 7: Please Don't Eat the Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 93",
          "text": "TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! went the Odor Extractors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, David Booth, Every Pointed Star, iUniverse, page 53",
          "text": "At the instant Mr. Smitty saw the woman, smoke ballooned out from the dual tailpipes of his hurtling car, and the engine's sound changed to an unsettling pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Lewis A. Coser, editor, The Idea of Social Structure: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton, Transaction Publishers, page 340",
          "text": "It is like the old joke about the man who is called in to repair a gigantic but malfunctioning piece of machinery that is emitting a Thurberian pocketa-queep instead of its normal pocketa-pocketa.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sound from a machine, usually when in need of a tune-up."
      ],
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "queep"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pocketa-queep"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Imitative, from a James Thurber short story.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "queep"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1939 March 18, James Thurber, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, in The New Yorker",
          "text": "He sprang to the machine, which was now going pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Dan Greenburg, Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book 7: Please Don't Eat the Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 93",
          "text": "TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! went the Odor Extractors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, David Booth, Every Pointed Star, iUniverse, page 53",
          "text": "At the instant Mr. Smitty saw the woman, smoke ballooned out from the dual tailpipes of his hurtling car, and the engine's sound changed to an unsettling pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Lewis A. Coser, editor, The Idea of Social Structure: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton, Transaction Publishers, page 340",
          "text": "It is like the old joke about the man who is called in to repair a gigantic but malfunctioning piece of machinery that is emitting a Thurberian pocketa-queep instead of its normal pocketa-pocketa.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sound from a machine, usually when in need of a tune-up."
      ],
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  "word": "pocketa-queep"
}