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Whoosh

//ʍʊʃ// intj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 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. 2
    Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head). sarcastic
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid) wordnet
  3. 3
    A homicide by shooting. Multicultural-London-English, slang
  4. 4
    A gun. Multicultural-London-English, slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To make a breathy sound like a whoosh. intransitive
  2. 2
    gush or squirt out wordnet
  3. 3
    To pass by quickly. ambitransitive
  4. 4
    move with a whooshing sound wordnet
  5. 5
    To pass by quickly.; To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point. ambitransitive, figuratively, intransitive
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  1. 6
    move with a sibilant sound wordnet
  2. 7
    To cause to pass quickly. transitive

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

  3. 8
    To kill by gun, to shoot. Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive

    "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)"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Of imitative origin.

Etymology 2

Of imitative origin.

Etymology 3

Of imitative origin.

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