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zoom
verb- to move very quickly US
From aviation slang. - When you passed over 110th Street it was like zooming off to another planet where they didn’t build any brick walls between wanting and doing[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 204, 1946
- We were zooming past Cleveland Avenue, and I brightened a little. — Max Shulman, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, p. 188, 1951
- [I]t was strange sitting in their brand-new comfortable car and hearing them talk of exams as we zoomed smoothly into town. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 17, 1957
- I was laboring along behind a fire truck when the untracked outlaw came zooming past. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 125, 1966
- [S]o with Dick Seaver at the wheel, we zoomed across town[.] — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 121, November 1968
- The car zoomed in pursuit. — The Sweeney, p. 52, 1976
- [H]e wonders whether he might not be better off in a garage in Pontefract, while zooming about in a helicopter at a hundred and twenty miles an hour[.] — Mike Stott, Soldiers Talking, Cleanly, 1978
- to induce someone to commit a crime that they were not otherwise inclined to commit US
- But she told me you zoomed her. — Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions, p. 175, 1970
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