whoosh
noun
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L330478 on Wikidata ↗verb
- moving with a whooshing noise
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ʍʊʃ/ / /wʊʃ/ / /ʍuːʃ/
intj
Etymology: Of imitative origin.
- Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close.
“I was batting when Nikki sent down a lollipop and whoosh, what a shot.”
- Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).
noun
Etymology: Of imitative origin.
- A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
“The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche! Elyse!””
- A homicide by shooting.
- A gun.
verb
Etymology: Of imitative origin.
- To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
- To pass by quickly.
- To pass by quickly.
- To cause to pass quickly.
“Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao.”
- To kill by gun, to shoot.
“Man do it for the team Kick him and swing him on landing The olders are whooshed Brass and bruck I promise all of them has been (dun out 'ere)”
“How many man got whooshed like Jackson?”