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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vroom

1967, echoic of the sound of a motor engine revving.

Wiktionary
vroom

interj. The sound of an engine rev up vb. (context informal English) To move with great speed; to zoom.

WordNet
vroom

v. make a loud, roaring sound, as of a car engine, while moving

Wikipedia
Vroom (disambiguation)

Vroom is a phonetic rendering of some sorts of internal combustion engine noise, and is also a sound commonly uttered by young children. It may also refer to:

People

Note: "Vroom" is Dutch for "pious".
  • Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (1566–1640), Dutch painter; father of ...
  • Cornelis Vroom (1591–1661), Dutch painter of the Baroque era
  • Peter Dumont Vroom (1791–1873), Governor of New Jersey
  • Hendrik Vroom (1850-1902), Gold Coast colonial official and businessman
  • Frederick Vroom (1857-1942), Canadian film actor
  • Victor Vroom (b. 1932), a Yale School of Management professor

Entertainment

  • Vroom, a car-themed programming genre originated by Discovery en Español
  • Vroom (Transformers), one of the Autobot Mega Pretenders in the Transformers universe
  • The Vrooms, two fictional characters in Driver Dan's Story Train

Other

  • Vroom & Dreesmann, a Dutch chain of department stores founded in 1887
  • Vroom.com, an American e-commerce website for used cars
Vroom

Vroom is an onomatopoeia that represents the sound of an engine revving up. It also describes the act of purposefully operating a motor vehicle at high speeds so as to create loud engine noises. The word is a common early childhood sound, and is used in speech therapy techniques. It is also an example of a cross-linguistic onomatopoeia.

Usage examples of "vroom".

En omdat zij vroom was, met de kinderlijk-geloovende vroomheid van een eenvoudig hart, dat dankbaarheid voelde voor wat het eens geschonken was geworden, vouwde zij hare dorre handen en bad zij, bad zij voor hare lieve Elly, die niet gelukkig was.

Kneesaa throws a party that is crashed by party animals -- Hell's Angel - type creatures who ride living motorcycles called Vrooms.

A return course had been automatically set before the transferer had left Vroom and locked in.

They were followed by three hard young men on Softail Harleys vrooming their way on clouds of thrumming exhaust.