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woosh
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The word "woosh" is a legitimate English word that is used to denote the sound of sudden movement through air, or water.
It can be used when describing the sound of a passing airplane, a sailboat cutting through the water, or even the sound of a person quickly running past you. Example: We heard the distinct woosh of a jet flying overhead.
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I may put myself on the "stupid people" side here as the majority of The Newsroom's machine-gun dialogue dissections of news corporations and agendas set in the light of complex foreign policy, woosh over my head on first hearing.
The name evokes the vanished glamour of Raffles hotel and the woosh of the punkawallah's fan.
Oh, and that god-awful strapline: 'The sword of destiny [woosh, scenery, woosh] has two edges'.
They have colonised the street to such an extent that if you close your eyes, all you can hear is the woosh of pressurised gas inflating balloons, the jangle of thousands of discarded chrome canisters being kicked across road and the cries of "three for a fiver" from these nitrous candymen.
Half of them went woosh.
And then all that's left is the 20km woosh back down to Bédoin, a beer, and the delicious prospect of watching Armstrong and co on 25 July, struggling up Ventoux in my tyre tracks.
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This enables them to simulate the hands-on fun of knob-twiddling and moving sliders that you get with an antique synthesiser and which generates all those supercool retro-futurist wibbles and wooshes.
The game itself sees you wooshing through the bloodstream of a girl with malaria, avoiding creepy mosquitos while saving "stranded teddy bears" (no, I don't remember those from Biology GCSE either) over 21 levels.
At first it was thrilling just to be in a boat under a starry sky, but then things got spectacular: every stroke of the paddle sent wooshes of blue light swirling around the kayak; forearms dipped in the water came up wreathed in momentary sparkles.
But he remains one of the world's most effective D.J.'s, although not one of the world's most interesting: his muscular rhythms and jagged melodies and wooshing synthesizer lines never fail to get people dancing, and keep them dancing.
But if you go to Central Park tomorrow (or to the afterparty tomorrow night), expect to hear the usual dancefloor-pleasing devices: heroic synthesizer lines, sudden (or gradual) volume changes and lots of wooshing sounds.
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