voop

A short, slightly swooping sound normally produced by technology.

Noun

  1. A short, slightly swooping sound normally produced by technology.
    • Big ups to: the sound of scratching (that "voop voop voop"), old 45s, vinyl, NeilRoss and KDEO, Dusty Groove America, […] - 2005, Eliot Wilder ·, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing:
    • I play with the zipper on my jacket, yanking it up and down. Voop. Voop. Voop-voop-voop. - 2012, Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet, page 40:
    • VOOP...He let the gears spin round in circles, for a couple revolutions...and then set it down. - 2017, Ace Finlay, Avilascaca Season 1 Episodes 1-8:

Origin

Onomatopoeic.

Forms

voops

Verb

  1. To produce a voop sound, possibly accompanied by a swift fluid movement.
    • The curlews were still calling, and now I could see them, vooping and flashing in their spring flight. - 1956, Chambers's Journal, page 241:
    • The loudest sound, except for an occasional car, was my hood “vooping” back and forth near my ears. - 2001, Reggie Marra, Who Lives Better Than We Do?, page 120:
    • Bekiaa shouted at Bele, crouching under the vooping warble of returning musket fire. - 2020, Taylor Anderson, Winds of Wrath, page 303:

Forms

voops vooping vooped