ker-bang

Updated: October 11, 2025

But it made no more difference to Tom than if it had been his own hat, and he tramped in like a policeman, saying, "Where is it, Bill?" "In one of them two camphor-wood chests," says I. He lifted up one of them by the end and let it fall ker-bang! "Not here," says he. "Try the other," says I, with a sudden sinking. He let that crash, too, and turning around, looked me in the face.

Lloyd Osbourne - Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas