Etymology

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Today it means: The sound of a machine gun firing. Full definition →

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The story

Onomatopoeic for a firing machine gun. Popularised by the invented Ork lexicon in the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop war game.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.