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SHOO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shoo mean?
• SHOO (verb)
The verb SHOO has 1 sense:
1. drive away by crying 'shoo!'
Familiarity information: SHOO used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they shoo ... he / she / it shoos
Past simple: shooed
Past participle: shooed
-ing form: shooing
... he / she / it shoos Past simple: shooed
Past participle: shooed
-ing form: shooing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Drive away by crying 'shoo!'
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "shoo" is one way to...):
chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back (force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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