voop

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vuːp/
• Rhymes: -uːp

Noun

voop (plural voops)

1. (colloquial) A short, slightly swooping sound normally produced by technology.
   • 2005, Eliot Wilder ·, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing:

     Big ups to: the sound of scratching (that "voop voop voop"), old 45s, vinyl, NeilRoss and KDEO, Dusty Groove America, […]

   • 2012, Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet, page 40:

     I play with the zipper on my jacket, yanking it up and down. Voop. Voop. Voop-voop-voop.

   • 2017, Ace Finlay, Avilascaca Season 1 Episodes 1-8:

     VOOP...He let the gears spin round in circles, for a couple revolutions...and then set it down.

   • 2017, Fiona Melrose, Johannesburg:

     Gin heard it too. Voop voop voop, the blades of a helicopter, voop voop voop.

Verb

voop (third-person singular simple present voops, present participle vooping, simple past and past participle vooped)

1. (intransitive, colloquial) To produce a voop sound, possibly accompanied by a swift fluid movement.
   • 1956, Chambers's Journal, page 241:

     The curlews were still calling, and now I could see them, vooping and flashing in their spring flight.

   • 2001, Reggie Marra, Who Lives Better Than We Do?, page 120:

     The loudest sound, except for an occasional car, was my hood “vooping” back and forth near my ears.

   • 2020, Taylor Anderson, Winds of Wrath, page 303:

     Bekiaa shouted at Bele, crouching under the vooping warble of returning musket fire.

   • 2020, Tracy Partridge-Johnson, The Golden Telescope, page 305:

     Anyhow, I'm not about to sit here just waiting for them to voop in and grab me at any moment.