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shoo away

v. drive away by crying `shoo!' [syn: shoo off, shoo]

Usage examples of "shoo away".

It was a scornful gesture, a flipping of his gnarled fingers as if to shoo away a fly.

He belched, waved his hand as if to shoo away a furfly, then said, a little too carelessly, 'But this problem of ownership is really a non-problem.

He just made an impatient motion, as though I were a fly he'd like to shoo away, and sat down.

January 1 through January 11: zero-he'd worked crowd control at a movie location--Parker wanted a muscle guy there to shoo away autograph hounds.

See if you can shoo away anybody who comes nosing around until we get back.

The bishop used his crozier in the same style that Margaret had used her broom to shoo away unwanted visitors.

Kyle started picking the largest shards from the puddle, pausing to shoo away the kittens, who had come to investigate.

The pull of the directional field of gravity was a mild force compared to the punishment such a powerful opponent could mete out, an opponent who had pushed aside the six Arkonide rockets as a man would shoo away that many flies with a wave of his hands.