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So, we seem to have adopted the sound the aerosol makes when it comes out of the can, to describe the the product. Off the top of my head, I couldn't think of anything similar in English. Does anything come to your mind?
When someone wants to increase the power output of an internal combustion engine, one may install different high-performance parts of that engine (e.g. a different camshaft). In the parlance of people who do such things, this may be referred to as "adding vroom" to the engine. "Vroom" seems to me to be a word like push-push in that it imitates the sound of an automobile exhaust which is connected to a muscle engine.
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