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The sound of a violent impact, such as a punch. quotations examples
Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.
1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Captial Territory, page 10, column 2
The sound of an explosion. quotations examples
Pow, they took off.
1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 71
plural pows
The sound of a violent impact. examples
The sound of an explosion. examples
(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Alternative form of poll quotations examples
he'd snuffle round the door till the few remaining hairs on the bald pow of Munro would fair rise on end.
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 24
(skiing slang) Clipping of powder (“powder snow”).