单词 | swoosh |
释义 | swoosh I. intransitive verb 1. < something swooshed, and six sprinklers sent up watery bouquets — Ellery Queen > 2. a. < a car swooshed by … in a sucking swirl of dust — Gordon Woodward > < his date swooshed down the stairway in a taffeta evening gown > b. < water swooshing from the town pump — Willie S. Ethridge > < the swooshing cloud of powder shown at right — Life > transitive verb < the experimental rocket ship … expected to swoosh a man into space — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > II. 1. < spectacular flashes and swooshes from the new weapons — Newsweek > < skirt fullness is concentrated in a swoosh at the back — Women's Wear Daily > specifically < multiple jet engines audible as a sibilant swoosh … gone almost as quickly as the planes themselves — H.E.Salisbury > 2. < first jet airliner to span the North Atlantic in a nonstop swoosh — Frederick Graham > < whipped out a razor and made a violent swoosh in the neighborhood of the other's neck — Alan Barth > |
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