whizzverb [ I + adv/prep ]
UK US usually whiz, US also wiz uk/wɪz/us/wɪz/informalto move or do something very fast:
A police car whizzed by, on its way to the accident.
We whizzed through the rehearsal, so that we'd be finished by lunchtime.
Time just whizzes past when you're enjoying yourself.
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Moving quickly
- beetle
- belt
- bob
- bowl down/along sth
- careen
- career
- glide
- gun
- leg
- make off
- outran
- pelt
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- scrabble
- scramble
- shoot
- stampede
- trot
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whizznoun
uk/wɪz/us/wɪz/UKwhizz noun (EXPERT)
[ C usually singular ] US usually whiz informal approving a person with a very high level of skill or knowledge in a particular subject:
a computer whizz
He's a whizz at poker.
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Experts and specialists
- a mine of information idiom
- academician
- authority
- boffin
- buff
- child prodigy
- consultant
- high priest
- hotshot
- know sth inside out idiom
- literati
- maven
- resident
- skilled
- superuser
- supremo
- techie
- technician
- technocracy
- virtuoso
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whizz noun (DRUG)
[ U ] slang for amphetamine (= a drug that makes the mind and body more active)
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Specific types of drug
- amyl nitrite
- antiretroviral
- blunt
- cisplatin
- coke
- corticosteroid
- designer drug
- downer
- hash
- junk
- marijuana
- mickey
- mind-altering
- narcotic
- non-addictive
- pep pill
- popper
- skunkweed
- stimulant
- weed
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