Usually means: Rapid alternation between two notes.
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  1. trills: Merriam-Webster
  2. trills: Collins English Dictionary
  3. trills: Vocabulary.com
  4. Trills, trills: Wordnik
  5. trills: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. trills: Wiktionary
  7. trills: Dictionary.com
  8. trills: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. trills: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. trills: Encyclopedia

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  1. trills: Medical dictionary

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  1. trills: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (trill)

noun:  (music) A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
noun:  (phonetics) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.
noun:  A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.
verb:  (intransitive) To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
verb:  (transitive) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To trickle.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To twirl.
adjective:  (slang, hip-hop culture) True, respected.
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