A siren-like fart which is just like a fart, but can make different noises. Just classified at a much stronger frequency. A fart that changes pitches mid-fart.
> Woah did you hear that cop car pass by? Nahh man it was just my chompa.

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学英语单词
AAPA,A.A.P.A.
acehs
agrocybe arvalis
Anguille, C.
army depot
articulated tug-barge
asterina orthodon
Baneasa
biarticulatus
BLMS
blue leg
body current
break off from
Cimex lectularius
closed chain driving sprocket
commerson
continuous seismic source
cooled-air circulation refrigeration machine
coronary ischemia
cr-spinel
cradin
cross-bar addressed dot matrix
cruel to be kind
Demalon
design prototyping technique
diplospondylous
directly caused by
Domaszkow
dominigenes
dromons
electrostatic mic
ellam
enculturative
even fracture
exclusionary rule
filtration test
fishpass facilities
flight eight
FY (fiscal year)
gaultherioside
genus Pinus
hammer home
hatoof
high breast wheel
horobin
inert medium
infamized
inherited metabolic disease
integumentary
intercon-necting device for dispatching communication system
intermittent apnea
kerasin thesaurismosis
kingdom protista
Kournas
Laser Phosphor Display
LIMOED
load carrying construction
load design
low-population zone
mealymouthedness
mechanical hysteresis
melange yarn
merchant guild
merikanto
Microcos
multilingual processor
neologian
noninterest bearing deposit
petrol electric car
phosphor strip
Pirogoff's operation
pre convention
programmed operators
public packet switching network
reason-able
recovery block
rehardening
rock sampler
rrnas
sadek
Sahelian
San Pedro de Atacama
show-offish
side charge
single to-and-fro ropeway
slow-mo
solar-powered satellite
Sorihuela
spin trap
squeeze mouding machine
swd (standing wave detector)
sweetheart lease
time of perigee passage
total testing time
tracting
tranquils
turn something over to somebody
visual information processing system
wadite
wolmanizing
yaryan
yellowish sweating