[
UK
/wˈɪz/
]
VERB
- move along very quickly
-
make a soft swishing sound
the motor whirred
the car engine purred
NOUN
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
How To Use whizz In A Sentence
- Place all the ingredients in a blender and whizz into a salsa. Times, Sunday Times
- I whizz round the lot in an hour and walk into the centre of town hoping for something more exciting. Times, Sunday Times
- What sort of music would you listen to if you did have a whizzy waterproof iPod and didn't have to concentrate and count? Rebecca Adlington | Small Talk
- Suddenly the silence was interrupted by the sound of arrows whizzing and striking soft objects.
- I somehow doubt whether things would have come so far, so fast if Sir Tim or CERN had tried to make money from this whizzo Web idea. The Free Web: 15 Years Old Today
- But as soon as the rifle had flashed there was the _fad, fad, fad_ of hurried steps, something whizzed in at the window, and with Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris
- After his cult hit Withnail & I, writer-director Bruce Robinson teamed up again with Richard E Grant for this misconceived satire about an advertising whizz-kid who develops an alter-ego in the form of a talking boil on his shoulder. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- On the other hand, age is no impediment to a high-flying career in the City or in IT: many of the current crop of dot.com whizz-kids are under 30.
- A bullet whizzed past my ear.
- About 6 months ago they did a story on the introduction of a whizzo piece of software being rolled out across all ABC metro newsrooms. Cheeseburger Gothic » MacSpeech Dictate, a potted review.