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Zoop vs Boop - What's the difference?

zoop | boop |

As an interjection zoop

is {{cx|colloquial|lang=en}} Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.|lang=en

As a noun boop is

a low-pitched beeping sound.

zoop

English

Interjection

(en-intj)
  • * 1989 , Charles A. Murray, ?Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo, the race to the moon (page 223)
    • "Let me show you how this damn stuff explodes in pure oxygen," Johnson said, and turned on the projector. Markley was "totally aghast" himself. "It just went ZOOP ! It was unbelievable. The stuff burned like you couldn't imagine."
  • * 1999 , School Library Journal (volume 45, issues 1-6, page 180)
    • On the day they play the Wild Things for the City Cup, he dons his gear (pulling on his underwear with a "zap" and his socks with a "zoop ") and heads for the field.
  • * 1999 , Popular Photography (November 1999)
    • And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop , through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works. And this can also happen with inadequate metal tripod sockets
  • * 2010 , Carolyn Godschild Miller, Soulmates
    • She'd tell me about one guy she'd kind of strung along without really meaning to, and zoop ! Some of the glamour I'd been seeing in her would just vanish. Then she started in on the next one and again—zoop! Smaller still!
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    boop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A low-pitched beeping sound.
  • * 1989 , Keith Peterson, The Trapdoor
    • When something important happened, a polite sort of boop went off, and up in the right-hand corner of your screen, above the copy, a word or two appeared: Urgent, Bulletin, Late Stocks, whatever.
  • * 2008 , Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies (page 281)
    • Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops. And to suggest that the rhythms laid down by a electronic drummer were anything close to swingin' was humorous.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 28, author=Jon Pareles, Nate Chinen, Kelefa Sanneh, Ben Ratliff, And Ben Allison, title=New CDs, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Guitars riffle precise chords and lilt through arpeggios, keyboards go boop , and every flick of a drumbeat is in place. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 20, author=Jon Pareles, title=Rasps, Boops, Snark and Sartre, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Santogold, from Brooklyn, may be mocking scene pretensions, defending the creative impulse or both in her single, “L.E.S. Artistes,” with its drumstick-clicking beat, electro boops and dance-rock chorus. }}