whoosh
English edit
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Etymology edit
Of imitative origin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
whoosh (plural whooshes)
- A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
- 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times[1]:
- 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!”
- (MLE, slang) A homicide by shooting.
- (MLE, slang) A gun.
Translations edit
breathy sound
Verb edit
whoosh (third-person singular simple present whooshes, present participle whooshing, simple past and past participle whooshed)
- (intransitive) To make a breathy sound like a whoosh or extrude with such a sound.
- (transitive, intransitive) To pass by quickly and more or less close or away.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point.
- (transitive) To cause to pass quickly.
- 2023 January 14, Trocheck Mate @RSolisByx, Twitter[2]:
- Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.
- 2019 September 29, Moscow17 (lyrics and music), “All For The Cause”[3]:
- 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)
- 2020 August 27, A.M (lyrics and music), “I Ain’t A Yardie” (track 10), in Mally[4]:
- How many man got whooshed like Jackson?
- 2022 April 27, Tight Road Baby (lyrics and music), “Plugged In” (track 10), in Fumez the Engineer, C Dot (music), Plugged In: S5 (2022)[5]:
- How many man's been whooshed with the stick?
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Interjection edit
whoosh
- Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close.
- (sarcastic) Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).