whiz
1or whizz
to make a humming, buzzing, or hissing sound, as an object passing swiftly through the air.
to move or rush with such a sound: The angry hornets whizzed by in a cloud.
Informal. a person who is quite good at a particular activity, in a certain field, etc.: She's a whiz at math.
the sound of a whizzing object.
a swift movement producing such a sound.
Origin of whiz
1Other words from whiz
- whiz·zing·ly, adverb
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Origin of whiz
2Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use whiz in a sentence
The whiz of a bullet shooting past your left ear might make you instinctually turn in that direction.
PlayStation 5 review: PS5 is a sensory game-changer | Elise Favis | November 6, 2020 | Washington PostSome micrometeoroids in space whiz through at over 20,000 mph.
Astronauts on the ISS are hunting for the source of another mystery air leak | Neel Patel | September 30, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewHundreds of bees are whizzing circles around the Cotes as they stack honeycombs on the trolley.
Acts of valor are acts of valor, whether there are bullets whizzing around you or not.
Colum McCann Talks New Novel ‘TransAtlantic’ and Narrative4 | Phil Klay | June 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOr nailing a whizzing forehand exactly at the right moment to leave his opponent dumbfounded across the net.
I tried to imagine her on the side of a California road, cell phone in hand, traffic whizzing past.
The First American: Excerpt from Henry Crumpton’s ‘The Art of Intelligence’ | Henry A. Crumpton | May 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was at this moment that I truly got a sense of just how much capital was whizzing around me.
On the roads horses in old-fashioned buggies danced at automobiles whizzing by.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonDaisy was still groaning as Mogin put the car in first and sent it whizzing down the street.
The rifle-bullets were whizzing so zip, zip from the sharpshooters on the Federal lines that involuntarily I moved on my chair.
At ten o'clock in the morning of April 18, 1862, the first mortar sent its big shell whizzing through the air.
Stories of Our Naval Heroes | VariousA shell went whizzing through the darkness over the ships and plunged into the water beyond.
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