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whiz

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Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
18
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/wɪz/

Definition of whiz

10 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (US)To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
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verb

  1. (US)To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
  2. (US)To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.
  3. (US)To throw or spin rapidly.
    “I whizzed the ball past the catcher.”
  4. (US, slang, vulgar)To urinate.
    “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.”

noun

  1. (US, countable, uncountable)A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
    “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.”
  2. (US, countable, informal, uncountable)Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
    “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.”
  3. (US, countable, especially, slang, uncountable, vulgar)An act of urination.
    “I have to take a whiz.”
    “I gotta take a whiz test to my PO / I know I failed 'cause I done smoked major weed, bro”
  4. (UK, US, slang, uncountable)Amphetamine.
    “And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is / But that's okay cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz”
  5. (UK, US, countable, slang, uncountable, with-definite-article)Pickpocketing.
    “This type of pickpocket, it should be noted, is passing from the scene; most class cannons now operating are old-timers. “The only youngsters I see breaking in on the whiz are jigs, and they are coining a bebop lingo that is something. […]”

prep

  1. (US, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, slang)Pronunciation spelling of with.

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Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare huzz, hizz, hiss. In some noun senses perhaps derived from wizard. In the sense “remarkably skilled person”, it may also simply a misspelling of its shortened form wiz,…

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Onomatopoeic. Compare huzz, hizz, hiss. In some noun senses perhaps derived from wizard. In the sense “remarkably skilled person”, it may also simply a misspelling of its shortened form wiz, or it may be a shortening of whiz kid, which may have a different origin, perhaps whiz(z) in the sense of “something very remarkable”, attested from 1908, or the interjection (as in whizz-bang or gee whiz). In fact, whiz(z) in the sense of “something very remarkable” may be derived from whizz-bang in the sense of “conspicuously talented”, and in military slang whizz-bang (or whizbang) can mean “an exceptionally skilful person” (attested in 1916 and later), which whiz in the same sense seems to be a shortening of (whence presumably also whiz kid).

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