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shoos

shoos is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shoo.

Meaning of shoo

Verb

shoo (third-person singular simple present shoos, present participle shooing, simple past and past participle shooed)

  1. (informal, transitive) To induce someone or something to leave.
    • Don't just shoo away mosquitoes, kill them!
  2. (informal, intransitive) To leave under inducement.
    • You kids had better shoo before your parents get a call.
  3. (informal, rare) To usher someone.
    • Shoo the visitor in.

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Phrases with shoos

Questions about shoos

What is shoos the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shoos is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shoo.

Words near shoos in the dictionary

  1. Shoopman
  2. Shoopmans
  3. shoops
  4. shoor
  5. shoors
  6. shoos
  7. shoos away
  8. shoosh
  9. Shooshap
  10. shooshed
  11. shooshes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoos (page history and authors); shoo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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