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Wilhelm scream

noun

Etymology

Named after Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River (1953), one of the earlier films to use the effect.

Definitions

  1. A stock sound effect of a man's scream, used in numerous films.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Wilhelm scream. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA