whizz

Word family

whizz1 British EnglishBrE, whiz American English /wɪz/ verb [intransitiveI]

1 [always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] informal

a) FAST/QUICKto move very quickly, often making a sound like something rushing through the air 嗖嗖地飞驰

An ambulance whizzed past.

一辆救护车呼啸而过。

I saw a big piece of metal whizzing through the air.

我看见一大块金属嗖地在空中飞过。

b) FAST/QUICKto do something very quickly 迅速地做

whizz through

Let’s just whizz through it one more time.

我们就快速地再来一遍吧。

2. American EnglishAmE spokenHBH to urinate 撒尿

Examples from the Corpus

whizz• Flashbacks to stilted junior-year productions started whizzing by faster than you can say Grosse Pointe Blank.• She had only ever seen them at a distance before, or whizzing by in their cars.• I stared out the window, watching as kids on bicycles and skateboards whizzed by.• Smoking on a train journey, looking out at the countryside whizzing by.• By the end of the week, Emma was whizzing down green runs, turning superbly and tackling the lifts with ease.• I felt I could whizz it round the country lanes on school runs and trips up to town.• We had scarcely got in there before the train came whizzing past at a great rate..• A bullet whizzed past my ear.• The armor meant that bullets were expected to be whizzing through the cockpit.

whizz2 British EnglishBrE, whiz American English noun

1 [countableC] informalINTELLIGENT someone who is very fast, intelligent, or skilled in a particular activity 快手，高手，能人

a math whiz

数学高手

2. take a whiz HBH American EnglishAmE spoken to urinate 撒尿

3. [countableC, uncountableU] informal amphetamine 苯丙胺，安非他明

Examples from the Corpus

whizz• She's a whizz in the kitchen.• When marketing whizzes renamed the fruit the kiwi, says the newsletter Turn Signals, sales shot up all over the world.

From Longman Business Dictionary