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"ref": "2005, Eliot Wilder ·, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing",
"text": "Big ups to: the sound of scratching (that \"voop voop voop\"), old 45s, vinyl, NeilRoss and KDEO, Dusty Groove America, […]",
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"ref": "2012, Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet, page 40",
"text": "I play with the zipper on my jacket, yanking it up and down. Voop. Voop. Voop-voop-voop.",
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},
{
"ref": "2017, Ace Finlay, Avilascaca Season 1 Episodes 1-8",
"text": "VOOP...He let the gears spin round in circles, for a couple revolutions...and then set it down.",
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},
{
"ref": "2017, Fiona Melrose, Johannesburg",
"text": "Gin heard it too. Voop voop voop, the blades of a helicopter, voop voop voop.",
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"(colloquial) A short, slightly swooping sound normally produced by technology."
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"ref": "1956, Chambers's Journal, page 241",
"text": "The curlews were still calling, and now I could see them, vooping and flashing in their spring flight.",
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"ref": "2001, Reggie Marra, Who Lives Better Than We Do?, page 120",
"text": "The loudest sound, except for an occasional car, was my hood “vooping” back and forth near my ears.",
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"ref": "2020, Taylor Anderson, Winds of Wrath, page 303",
"text": "Bekiaa shouted at Bele, crouching under the vooping warble of returning musket fire.",
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{
"ref": "2020, Tracy Partridge-Johnson, The Golden Telescope, page 305",
"text": "Anyhow, I'm not about to sit here just waiting for them to voop in and grab me at any moment.",
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"To produce a voop sound, possibly accompanied by a swift fluid movement."
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"(intransitive, colloquial) To produce a voop sound, possibly accompanied by a swift fluid movement."
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},
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"ref": "2017, Ace Finlay, Avilascaca Season 1 Episodes 1-8",
"text": "VOOP...He let the gears spin round in circles, for a couple revolutions...and then set it down.",
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"text": "Gin heard it too. Voop voop voop, the blades of a helicopter, voop voop voop.",
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"ref": "2020, Taylor Anderson, Winds of Wrath, page 303",
"text": "Bekiaa shouted at Bele, crouching under the vooping warble of returning musket fire.",
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"ref": "2020, Tracy Partridge-Johnson, The Golden Telescope, page 305",
"text": "Anyhow, I'm not about to sit here just waiting for them to voop in and grab me at any moment.",
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