zoop

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/zuːp/

interjection

Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.

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Meanings

interjection
  1. colloquialSound effect suggesting rapid motion.

    On the day they play the Wild Things for the City Cup, he dons his gear (pulling on his underwear with a "zap" and his socks with a "zoop") and heads for the field.

    1999, School Library Journal, volume 45, numbers 1-6, page 180
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    "Let me show you how this damn stuff explodes in pure oxygen," Johnson said, and turned on the projector. Markley was "totally aghast" himself. "It just went ZOOP! It was unbelievable. The stuff burned like you couldn't imagine."

    1989, Charles A. Murray, Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo, the race to the moon, page 223

    And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop, through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works. And this can also happen with inadequate metal tripod sockets […]

    1999 November, Popular Photography

    She'd tell me about one guy she'd kind of strung along without really meaning to, and zoop! Some of the glamour I'd been seeing in her would just vanish. Then she started in on the next one and again—zoop! Smaller still!

    2010, Carolyn Godschild Miller, Soulmates

Origin

Imitative; compare zap, zip.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with zoop

grouploopsoupscoopcoupecoopsnooptroophooppooptroupeboopswoopdupestoopwhoopsloopregrouploupedroopcroupshooprouproop
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Anagrams

Pozo
Cite this entry
APA

zoop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zoop

MLA

“zoop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zoop. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “zoop,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zoop.

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