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Vinony

whoosh

noun

No English definition recorded for this entry.

L330478 on Wikidata ↗

verb

  1. moving with a whooshing noise
L333509 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ʍʊʃ/ / /wʊʃ/ / /ʍuːʃ/

intj

Etymology: Of imitative origin.

  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. Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).

noun

Etymology: Of imitative origin.

  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. A homicide by shooting.
  3. A gun.

verb

Etymology: Of imitative origin.

  1. To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
  2. To pass by quickly.
  3. To pass by quickly.
  4. To cause to pass quickly.

    “Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao.”

  5. 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?”