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語源

Imitative.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /vɹuːm/
• (米国発音) IPA: /vɹum/, /vɹʊm/
• 韻: -uːm, -ʊm

間投詞

vroom

1. (often reduplicated) The sound of an engine, especially when it is revving up.

   I never saw my uncle’s Ferrari, but I could always hear it going vroom as it flew past by my house.

別の表記

• broom, brrm, brrrm

名詞

vroom (plural vrooms)

1. The sound of an engine revving up.
   • 2003, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 48, number 2, page 52:

     Our ears are assaulted with the screeching of tires, the crashing of trash cans, the exaggerated vrooms of a revving engine.

動詞

vroom (third-person singular simple present vrooms, present participle vrooming, simple past and past participle vroomed)

1. (informal) To move with great speed; to zoom.

参考

• putt putt