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    What would it be called when someone exhales through their closed lips, making a motorboat-type sound?
     
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    A Bronx cheer.

    Or maybe a mouth-fart.
     
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    a lip trill, sometimes called bubbling your lips
     
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    I'd try to avoid referring to it and instead set up for onomatopoeia, like "BBBRRR-rrr-rrr-PPPPPRPPP-rrr-RPPPPPRR-rr-RP!"
     
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    Sounds more like body gasses escaping from down under.
     
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