whiz

or whizz

[ wiz, hwiz ]

/ wɪz, ʰwɪz /

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verb (used without object), whizzed, whiz·zing.

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.

verb (used with object), whizzed, whiz·zing.

to cause to whiz.

to treat with a whizzer.

noun

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.

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Origin of whiz

1540–50; imitative; cf. fizz

OTHER WORDS FROM whiz

whiz·zing·ly, adverb

Other definitions for whiz (2 of 2)

whiz²

[ wiz, hwiz ]

/ wɪz, ʰwɪz /

noun

wizard (def. 3).

Origin of whiz

By shortening

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.
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Some 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 Review
Hundreds of bees are whizzing circles around the Cotes as they stack honeycombs on the trolley.
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Acts of valor are acts of valor, whether there are bullets whizzing around you or not.
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Or nailing a whizzing forehand exactly at the right moment to leave his opponent dumbfounded across the net.
Why Andy Roddick Had to Quit Tennis|Nicholas McCarvel|August 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
It was at this moment that I truly got a sense of just how much capital was whizzing around me.
Ringing in the New Year on Wall Street|Beau Willimon|January 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST
On the roads horses in old-fashioned buggies danced at automobiles whizzing by.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Daisy was still groaning as Mogin put the car in first and sent it whizzing down the street.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
The rifle-bullets were whizzing so zip, zip from the sharpshooters on the Federal lines that involuntarily I moved on my chair.
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At ten o'clock in the morning of April 18, 1862, the first mortar sent its big shell whizzing through the air.
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A shell went whizzing through the darkness over the ships and plunged into the water beyond.
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