Definition of "whoosh"

whoosh

/ʍʊʃ/

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

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