voop

plural voops

1. colloquialA short, slightly swooping sound normally produced by technology.

   Gin heard it too. Voop voop voop, the blades of a helicopter, voop voop voop.

   2017, Fiona Melrose, Johannesburg

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   Big ups to: the sound of scratching (that "voop voop voop"), old 45s, vinyl, NeilRoss and KDEO, Dusty Groove America, […]

   2005, Eliot Wilder ·, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing

   I play with the zipper on my jacket, yanking it up and down. Voop. Voop. Voop-voop-voop.

   2012, Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet, page 40

   VOOP...He let the gears spin round in circles, for a couple revolutions...and then set it down.

   2017, Ace Finlay, Avilascaca Season 1 Episodes 1-8

present singular third person voops · participle present vooping · participle past vooped · past vooped

1. colloquialintransitiveTo produce a voop sound, possibly accompanied by a swift fluid movement.

   Bekiaa shouted at Bele, crouching under the vooping warble of returning musket fire.

   2020, Taylor Anderson, Winds of Wrath, page 303

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   The curlews were still calling, and now I could see them, vooping and flashing in their spring flight.

   1956, Chambers's Journal, page 241

   The loudest sound, except for an occasional car, was my hood “vooping” back and forth near my ears.

   2001, Reggie Marra, Who Lives Better Than We Do?, page 120

   Anyhow, I'm not about to sit here just waiting for them to voop in and grab me at any moment.

   2020, Tracy Partridge-Johnson, The Golden Telescope, page 305