Meaning of whiz | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
   US, countable, uncountable
2. Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
   US, countable, informal, uncountable
3. An act of urination.
   US, countable, especially, slang, uncountable, vulgar
4. Amphetamine.
   UK, US, slang, uncountable
5. Pickpocketing.
   UK, US, countable, slang, uncountable, with-definite-article

Equivalents

Examples

“He's a whiz with the computers.”

“The chefs are veritable whizzes at arranging food on your plate to look like happy frog faces and growly clown faces.”

“It didn't take long for New York Magazine's story on a 17-year-old stock whiz with a rumored net worth of $72 million to make a splash. But the story's juicy premise unraveled almost as quickly.”

“I have to take a whiz.”

“I gotta take a whiz test to my PO / I know I failed 'cause I done smoked major weed, bro”

“And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is / But that's okay cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz”

“This type of pickpocket, it should be noted, is passing from the scene; most class cannons now operating are old-timers. “The only youngsters I see breaking in on the whiz are jigs, and they are coining a bebop lingo that is something. […]”

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