whoosh

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ʍʊʃ/
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/ʍʊʃ/ · /wʊʃ/ · /ʍuːʃ/ · /wuːʃ/ · /ʍʉʃ/ · /wʉʃ/

Definition of whoosh

10 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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!””
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noun

  1. 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!””
  2. (Multicultural-London-English, slang)A homicide by shooting.
  3. (Multicultural-London-English, slang)A gun.

verb

  1. (intransitive)To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
  2. (ambitransitive)To pass by quickly.
  3. (ambitransitive, figuratively, intransitive)To pass by quickly.
  4. (transitive)To cause to pass quickly.
    “Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao.”
  5. (Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive)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?”
    “How many man's been whooshed with the stick?”

intj

  1. Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close.
    “I was batting when Nikki sent down a lollipop and whoosh, what a shot.”
  2. (sarcastic)Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Of imitative origin.

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