Usually means: Sound of something moving quickly.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. whoosh: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whoosh: Merriam-Webster
  3. whoosh: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whoosh: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whoosh: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whoosh: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whoosh, whoosh: Wordnik
  8. whoosh: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. whoosh: Wiktionary
  10. whoosh: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. whoosh: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. whoosh: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. whoosh: Dictionary.com
  14. whoosh: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Whoosh, Whoosh: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. whoosh: Rhymezone
  17. whoosh: FreeDictionary.org
  18. whoosh: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. whoosh: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whoosh: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whoosh, whoosh: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See whooshed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
noun:  (MLE, slang) A homicide by shooting.
noun:  (MLE, slang) A gun.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To pass by quickly.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to pass quickly.
verb:  (transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.

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