Sekirov Dictionary

whoosh

/ʍʊʃ/

verb 5
noun 3
exclamation 2
forms 3

verb5

To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
To pass by quickly.
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To cause to pass quickly.
- Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao. — 2023
(figurative) To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point.
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(slang) 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) — 2019

noun3

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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!” — 2012
(slang) A gun.
(slang) A homicide by shooting.

exclamation2

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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. — 1995
Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).

forms

whooshed · whooshing · whooshes

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