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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The loud, roaring noise of an engine operating at high speed.
- v. To move noisily at high speed in or as if in a motor vehicle.
Wiktionary
- interj. The sound of an engine revving up
- v. To move with great speed; to zoom.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make a loud, roaring sound, as of a car engine, while moving
- n. the roaring sound made by a motor that is running at high speed
Etymologies
- Imitative.
Examples
“Click here to visit Kevin Provencher and Allen Lessels '' Gone Racing 'blog, covering things that go' vroom 'in NH.”
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“My daughter has recently showed an interest in pushing her toys around as though they were a car and making "vroom" sounds.”
“Gwen Dulugat, 27, also from Paris, said the van -- unauthorized to pick up passengers at the airport -- took off with a "vroom" when Port Authority cops tried to prevent it from leaving.”
“It's a really good experience, and the time's just gone 'vroom'. ”
“Loaded pauses and … belaboured accentuation as the automotive irritants vroom through another joke … about driveshafts.”
The Guardian: Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
“He made slightly stoned “vroom, vroom” noises in his throat.”
“Rozmer's truck vroom-vrooms into the Marwick station just as his bus comes to a complete stop¾Gabe's face, Rozmer's eight year old son, pressed to the glass.”
“It's like taking a car on the highway -- vroom, it's very happy.”
“It's a trade-off, says Damian (I'm sure he's right) between 20mph restrictions in suburban streets (a tick on the Lib Dem policy box) and the vroom vroom lobby, the road/anti-climate change crowd whose patron saint is Jeremy Clarkson, the pope of petrolheads.”
The Guardian: Speed limit: Philip Hammond puts his foot on the accelerator | Michael White
“If Sarkozy represented for many the 'bling-bling' right then Dominique Strauss-Kahn is, whether he likes it or not, a representative of the left 'vroom vroom'.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vroom’.
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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extra room
An add-on to Trivet's list elbow room and Lampbane's list 2BDRM W/VU that tries not to duplicate Trivet's and Lampbane's existing rooms. Virtual, allegorical and proverbial rooms accepted.
scullery, suite, porch, screened porch, breakfast room, atheneum, attic, hall, dressing room, passageway, corridor, fusuma and 126 more...
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The Pain of Texting
Words that are a pain in the ass to type in on a numerical keypad on a cell phone because they have consecutive letters that share the same button:
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI...defcon, hi, no, attitude, xylophone, on, monday, monkey, mono, dig, back, babble and 212 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like. (dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 86 more...
jennarenn This word makes me think of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. Nov 3, 2009