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woosh

woosh is the alternative form of whoosh.

Meaning of 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.

See all 10 meanings of whoosh

Forms of woosh

Noun
pluralwooshes
Verb
third-person singular presentwooshes
present participlewooshing
past participlewooshed
pastwooshed

Questions about woosh

What is woosh the alternative form of?
Woosh is the alternative form of whoosh.

Words near woosh in the dictionary

  1. Woorndoo
  2. woos
  3. Woosang
  4. woose
  5. wooses
  6. woosh
  7. wooshed
  8. wooshes
  9. wooshing
  10. Woosley
  11. Woosleys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woosh (page history and authors); whoosh (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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