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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Whiz

/wĭz/ · IPA /wɪz/
01 v. i. To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.
imp. & p. p. Whizzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Whizzing
  1. 1.
    To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.
    “It flew, and whizzing, cut the liquid way.” Dryden.
02 n. A hissing and humming sound.
  1. 1.
    A hissing and humming sound.
    “Like the whiz of my crossbow.” Coleridge.