voop
/vuːp/
voop noun: a short, slightly swooping sound normally produced by technology.
Noun
voop (plural voops)
- A short, slightly swooping sound normally produced by technology.
- 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
Verb
voop (third-person singular simple present voops, present participle vooping, simple past and past participle vooped)
- To produce a voop sound, possibly accompanied by a swift fluid movement.
- 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
Examples of voop in a sentence
- 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:
- Voop voop voop, the blades of a helicopter, voop voop voop.2017, Fiona Melrose, Johannesburg:
- Bekiaa shouted at Bele, crouching under the vooping warble of returning musket fire.2020, Taylor Anderson, Winds of Wrath, page 303:
- 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:
Forms of voop
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | voops |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | voops |
| present participle | vooping |
| past participle | vooped |
| past | vooped |
Origin of voop
Onomatopoeic.
Words that rhyme with voop
39 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- bloop
- cloop
- whoop
- coupe
- regroup
- roop
- saloop
- sloop
- snoop
- stoup
- alley oop
- boop
- gloop
- goop
- horse scoop
- jupe
- loupe
- roup
- troupe
- Tuesday Group
- astoop
- chat group
- croup
- dedupe
- drupe
- fisherman's soup
- FOUP
- French onion soup
- ginger group
- L'Anse-au-Loup
- locker loop
- matrix group
- ploop
- pupe
- shoop
- stewp
- stoep
- stupe
- zoop
Questions about voop
- What does voop mean?
- Voop means a short, slightly swooping sound normally produced by technology.
- How do you use voop in a sentence?
- VOOP...He let the gears spin round in circles, for a couple revolutions...and then set it down.
- What part of speech is voop?
- Voop can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce voop?
- Voop is pronounced /vuːp/.
- What is the plural of voop?
- The plural of voop is voops.
Words near voop in the dictionary
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