Zoop vs Goop - What's the difference?
zoop | goop |
* 1989 , Charles A. Murray, ?Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo, the race to the moon (page 223)
* 1999 , School Library Journal (volume 45, issues 1-6, page 180)
* 1999 , Popular Photography (November 1999)
* 2010 , Carolyn Godschild Miller, Soulmates
(informal, usually, uncountable) A thick, slimy substance; goo.
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(countable, informal, derogatory, dated) A silly, stupid, or boorish person.
As an interjection zoop
is {{cx|colloquial|lang=en}} Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.|lang=enAs a noun goop is
a thick, slimy substance; goo.zoop
English
Interjection
(en-intj)- "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."
- 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.
- 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
- 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!