baki-baki
Repeated hard cracking or snapping sounds — branches breaking, knuckles cracking, or something stiff being forced apart.
💡A typhoon tearing at trees — 'Branches snapped baki-baki all night.'
台風で枝がばきばきと折れた。
Branches snapped baki-baki in the typhoon.
The dry branches broke ___ under his boots.
台風で枝が○○と折れた。