whoosh

plural whooshes · alternative woosh

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!”

   2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times

2. Multicultural London EnglishslangA homicide by shooting.
3. Multicultural London EnglishslangA gun.

present singular third person whooshes · participle present whooshing · participle past whooshed · past whooshed · alternative woosh

1. intransitiveTo make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
2. ambitransitiveTo pass by quickly.
   1. ambitransitivefigurativelyintransitiveTo happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point.
3. transitiveTo cause to pass quickly.

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

   2023 January 14, Trocheck Mate @RSolisByx, Twitter

4. Multicultural London EnglishslangtransitiveTo kill by gun, to shoot.

   How many man got whooshed like Jackson?

   2020 August 27, A.M, “I Ain’t A Yardie” (track 10), in Mally

   2 more examples

   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 September 29, Moscow17, “All For The Cause”

   How many man's been whooshed with the stick?

   2022 April 27, Tight Road Baby, “Plugged In” (track 10), in Fumez the Engineer, C Dot (music), Plugged In: S5 (2022)

alternative woosh

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.

   1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 92

2. sarcasticIndicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).