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Definition of phut in English: phutexclamation fʌtfət 1Used to represent a sound such as that made by the passage of a bullet or that of a small, muffled explosion. Phut! Up went the Roman candles, like distress flares Example sentencesExamples - Mind you, there is also the occasional phut, phut, phut to be heard.
- With a phut from the silenced rifle, the 5.56 mm nano-shell entered through the Crab's eye.
- 1.1 Used to convey the suddenness of a malfunction, disappearance, ending, etc.
we've all been there—you've just spent the last five hours carefully crafting a document and then, phut!
Phrases informal Fail to work properly or at all. when the boom went phut, traders were left with sky-high rents and no customers Example sentencesExamples - But the album never got to the stores last spring because 13 Amp went phut.
- Not that they aren't used to the travails of erratic power supply and the lines going phut whenever it starts raining.
- The engineer relayed this to his colleague as ‘It went phut!’
- Each day I would hit the record button, capturing what was fast turning into a comic drama - like when the radios went phut before California, forcing us to land at a small town called Blythe.
Synonyms fail, meet with failure, meet with disaster, miscarry, go wrong, go awry, fall through, fall flat, be frustrated, break down, collapse, founder, fold, come to nothing, come to naught
Origin Late 19th century: imitative. Rhymes abut, but, butt, cut, glut, gut, hut, intercut, jut, Mut, mutt, putt, rut, scut, shortcut, shut, slut, smut, strut, tut, undercut Definition of phut in US English: phutexclamationfətfət 1Used to represent a sound such as that made by the passage of a bullet or that of a small, muffled explosion. Phut! Up went the Roman candles, like distress flares Example sentencesExamples - With a phut from the silenced rifle, the 5.56 mm nano-shell entered through the Crab's eye.
- Mind you, there is also the occasional phut, phut, phut to be heard.
- 1.1 Used to convey the suddenness of a malfunction, disappearance, etc.
we've all been there—you've just spent the last five hours carefully crafting a document and then, phut!
Phrases informal Fail to work properly or at all. when the boom went phut, traders were left with sky-high rents and no customers Example sentencesExamples - Each day I would hit the record button, capturing what was fast turning into a comic drama - like when the radios went phut before California, forcing us to land at a small town called Blythe.
- But the album never got to the stores last spring because 13 Amp went phut.
- The engineer relayed this to his colleague as ‘It went phut!’
- Not that they aren't used to the travails of erratic power supply and the lines going phut whenever it starts raining.
Synonyms fail, meet with failure, meet with disaster, miscarry, go wrong, go awry, fall through, fall flat, be frustrated, break down, collapse, founder, fold, come to nothing, come to naught
Origin Late 19th century: imitative. |