whizz

Noun

whiz (countable and uncountable, plural whizzes)

1. (US) A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
   • Immediately there was a ringing and a singing in the hills, and then a whispering and a lisping and a whiz and a buzz all about him, for the little people were now some whirling round and round in the dance, and others sporting and tumbling about in the moonshine, and playing a thousand merry...1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 289
2. (US, informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
   • He's a whiz with the computers.

   Synonyms:

   adept, ace, artist, buff, crackerjack, crack hand, dab, dab hand, dabster, don hand

3. (US, especially, slang, vulgar) An act of urination.
   • I have to take a whiz.

   Synonyms:

   call of nature, easement, emiction, leak, making water, miction, micturition, number one, pee, piss

4. (UK, US, slang, uncountable) Amphetamine.
   • And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is / But that's okay cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz1995, “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp
5. (UK, US, slang, with-definite-article) Pickpocketing.
   • This type of pickpocket, it should be noted, is passing from the scene; most class cannons now operating are old-timers. “The only youngsters I see breaking in on the whiz are jigs, and they are coining a bebop lingo that is something. […]2003, David W. Maurer, Whiz Mob, page 40

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