Whiz

/wɪz/ · verb

Meaning

To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air..

Definitions by Sense

1. To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
2. To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.
3. To throw or spin rapidly.
4. (vulgar, slang) To urinate.
5. A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
6. (informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
7. (vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
8. (UK, slang, uncountable) Amphetamine.

Example Sentences

I whizzed the ball past the catcher.

We whizzed in the bushes.

The first thing Howard did following Vi's departure was to haul the step-stool over to the kitchen sink and whiz into the drain again.

Immediately there was a ringing and a singing in the hills, and then a whispering and a lisping and a whiz and a buzz all about him, for the little people were now some whirling round and round in the dance, and others sporting and tumbling about in the moonshine, and playing a thousand merry pranks and tricks.

He's a whiz with the computers.

The chefs are veritable whizzes at arranging food on your plate to look like happy frog faces and growly clown faces.

It didn't take long for New York Magazine's story on a 17-year-old stock whiz with a rumored net worth of $72 million to make a splash. But the story's juicy premise unraveled almost as quickly.

I have to take a whiz.

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Word Forms

• whizzes
• whizzing
• whizzed
• whizz
• wiz
• wizz

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