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You could hear the engines revving from a mile away.
1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games:
Two in a row, everybody knows at the green light you rev it on the red line.
2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer:
It is impossible to see inside the mind of a killer. What was he thinking, the young man who sat at the wheel of the white van at the top of Las Ramblas and purposefully revved the engine? What warped ideology, what distorted belief system, what bitter life experience had brought him to this fateful tipping point?
“rev”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024