verb
- to move very quickly with a high-pitched sound
- to do something very quickly and skillfully
Usage: informal
noun
- a high-pitched sound made by something moving very fast
- a person who is very skilled at something
Usage: informal
Examples
- The bullet whizzed past his ear.
- Cars whizzed by on the highway.
- She whizzed through her homework in twenty minutes.
- I heard the whizz of the arrow as it flew toward the target.
- He’s a whizz at mathematics.
- The tennis ball whizzed over the net.
- There was a loud whizz as the firework shot into the sky.