Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The loud, roaring noise of an engine operating at high speed.
- intransitive verb To move noisily at high speed in or as if in a motor vehicle.
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- interjection The sound of an engine
revving up - verb informal To move with great speed; to
zoom .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a loud, roaring sound, as of a car engine, while moving
- noun the roaring sound made by a motor that is running at high speed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Click here to visit Kevin Provencher and Allen Lessels '' Gone Racing 'blog, covering things that go' vroom 'in NH.
UnionLeader.com -- RSS feeds -- New Hampshire news, business and sports 2009
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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.
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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.
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It's a really good experience, and the time's just gone 'vroom'. "
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It's like taking a car on the highway -- vroom, it's very happy.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Soprano Patricia Racette Talks About Tosca as Washington National Opera Launches its Fall Season Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2011
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It's like taking a car on the highway -- vroom, it's very happy.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Soprano Patricia Racette Talks About Tosca as Washington National Opera Launches its Fall Season Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2011
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Loaded pauses and … belaboured accentuation as the automotive irritants vroom through another joke … about driveshafts.
Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die 2011
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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.
Speed limit: Philip Hammond puts his foot on the accelerator | Michael White 2011
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He made slightly stoned “vroom, vroom” noises in his throat.
Cucumbertini Larry Strattner 2011
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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.
The Names of All the Planets Ginnah Howard 2011
jennarenn commented on the word vroom
This word makes me think of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.
November 3, 2009