zoop
/zuːp/
zoop interjection: sound effect suggesting rapid motion.
Interjection
- Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.
- "Let me show you how this damn stuff explodes in pure oxygen," Johnson said, and turned on the projector. Markley was "totally aghast" himself. "It just went ZOOP! It was unbelievable. The stuff burned like you couldn't imagine."1989, Charles A. Murray, Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo, the race to the moon, page 223
- On the day they play the Wild Things for the City Cup, he dons his gear (pulling on his underwear with a "zap" and his socks with a "zoop") and heads for the field.1999, School Library Journal, volume 45, numbers 1-6, page 180
Examples of zoop in a sentence
- And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop, through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works.1999 November, Popular Photography:
- She'd tell me about one guy she'd kind of strung along without really meaning to, and zoop!2010, Carolyn Godschild Miller, Soulmates:
Origin of zoop
Imitative; compare zap, zip.
Words that rhyme with zoop
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
- voop
Questions about zoop
- What does zoop mean?
- Zoop means sound effect suggesting rapid motion.
- How do you use zoop in a sentence?
- And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop, through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works.
- What part of speech is zoop?
- Zoop is an interjection.
- How do you pronounce zoop?
- Zoop is pronounced /zuːp/.
Words near zoop in the dictionary
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