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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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A homicide by shooting.Multicultural-London-Englishslang
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A gun.Multicultural-London-Englishslang
whoosh
hwu:ʃ5 senses · 11 ms
Level C2
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To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.intransitive
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To pass by quickly.ambitransitive
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To pass by quickly.; To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point.ambitransitivefigurativelyintransitive
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To cause to pass quickly.transitive
- Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao.
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To kill by gun, to shoot.Multicultural-London-Englishslangtransitive
- 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?
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Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close.
- I was batting when Nikki sent down a lollipop and whoosh, what a shot.
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Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).sarcastic