whoosh

Noun

whoosh (plural whooshes)

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-English, slang) A homicide by shooting.
3. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) A gun.

Verb

whoosh (third-person singular simple present whooshes, present participle whooshing, simple past and past participle whooshed)

1. (intransitive) To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
2. (ambitransitive) To pass by quickly.
   1. (ambitransitive, figuratively, intransitive) To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point.
3. (transitive) To 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-English, slang, transitive) To kill by gun, to shoot.
   • 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 got whooshed like Jackson?2020 August 27, A.M, “I Ain’t A Yardie” (track 10), in Mally

Interjection

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