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exclamation paʊpaʊ Expressing the sound of a blow or explosion. (突然爆裂的声音)啪!砰! Pow! Bombs went off on six beaches at once 砰!炸弹同时在六处海滩爆炸。 Example sentencesExamples - All the mileage he had on that arm built up and… pow… it was almost gone, if not for a miracle of surgery that's near common today.
- Then, pow, and she was on the floor, and he was standing over her.
- The offense consisted of pointing a weapon described as ‘a breaded chicken finger’ and uttering the words, ‘pow, pow, pow.’
- I figured I'd pull my boat the few feet back to deeper water, hop back in, and pow, I'd be off.
- I went into this little shop, made my way to the back, and then she looked up at me and smiled… pow!
- And bam, pow, bam… things are going to be so much fun!
- And - something else most journalists should know - quite often you look away for a moment and pow, there it is on the front page with standardised spelling.
- He got rocking and talking, rocking and talking, and - pow!
- You had an idea, took it to a games company and pow… off you go and finish the code.
- You roll the egg rolls into the lettuce, add whatever suits your fancy, and dip the whole shebang into a bowl of light, sweet dressing - pow!
- I had to go up and down, with the right hand from the jab, set it out with the jab - pow - right to the body, get back to the head, mix it up.
- Any pitcher can get overused or take a ball off their head and pow - in an instant the whole rotation or pen has changed.
- Not only did he once support himself painting billboards, but he makes art that draws upon their color, scale, iconography, and compositional pow!
- ‘I don't know,’ Greg said, turning about to face her, ‘It started going all funny, sped up, and then pow!’
- The boy pulled out his toy gun and yelled, ‘Pow, pow.’
- Compress a vaporized mix of a little gasoline and a little air in a combustion chamber, add a spark and - pow!
- What's great about a red dress, it has pow, it has immediate sex appeal, it shows you off, it brightens you up.
- Anyway, my resistance to change collapsed with the appearance on the business scene in North Yorkshire of two new ventures which were designed to inject a bit of zip, zap and pow into my presence.
- Arthur tells of the loss of an eye in the lunch line at one camp: ‘We are standing and - pow - the end of the whip takes my eye.’
- They get these snails over there and they just - pow!
OriginLate 19th century (originally US): imitative. Rhymesallow, avow, Bilbao, Bissau, bough, bow, bow-wow, brow, cacao, chow, ciao, cow, dhow, Dow, endow, Foochow, Frau, Hangzhou, Hough, how, Howe, kowtow, Lao, Liao, Macao, Macau, miaow, Mindanao, mow, now, ow, Palau, plough (US plow), prow, row, scow, Slough, sough, sow, Tao, thou, vow, wow, Yangshao noun paʊpaʊ mass nounSkiing informal skiing through fresh pow in really cold conditions is my favourite time on the mountain short for powder (sense 2 of the noun) Example sentencesExamples - Wiping out in deep pow on a shallow gradient is like falling into a pool and not being able to swim!
- On the other side of the valley we skied laps of pow with Neal.
- In the soft and cut-up pow, they skied well, but again were a little squirrelly as the tips and tails got pushed around a bit.
- After a good night's snowfall, you can see dozens of tiny figures trudging up to the snow-peaks, skis on their backs, for that ultimate thrill of untracked 'pow'.
- You'll need the rest after skiing 2,000 vertical feet of tight trees and pow.
abbreviationpiːəʊˈdʌbljuːˌpioʊˈdəblju exclamationpaʊpou Expressing the sound of a blow or explosion. (突然爆裂的声音)啪!砰! Pow! Bombs went off on six beaches at once 砰!炸弹同时在六处海滩爆炸。 Example sentencesExamples - Anyway, my resistance to change collapsed with the appearance on the business scene in North Yorkshire of two new ventures which were designed to inject a bit of zip, zap and pow into my presence.
- They get these snails over there and they just - pow!
- What's great about a red dress, it has pow, it has immediate sex appeal, it shows you off, it brightens you up.
- You roll the egg rolls into the lettuce, add whatever suits your fancy, and dip the whole shebang into a bowl of light, sweet dressing - pow!
- Compress a vaporized mix of a little gasoline and a little air in a combustion chamber, add a spark and - pow!
- You had an idea, took it to a games company and pow… off you go and finish the code.
- I figured I'd pull my boat the few feet back to deeper water, hop back in, and pow, I'd be off.
- And - something else most journalists should know - quite often you look away for a moment and pow, there it is on the front page with standardised spelling.
- The offense consisted of pointing a weapon described as ‘a breaded chicken finger’ and uttering the words, ‘pow, pow, pow.’
- Arthur tells of the loss of an eye in the lunch line at one camp: ‘We are standing and - pow - the end of the whip takes my eye.’
- I went into this little shop, made my way to the back, and then she looked up at me and smiled… pow!
- And bam, pow, bam… things are going to be so much fun!
- The boy pulled out his toy gun and yelled, ‘Pow, pow.’
- Then, pow, and she was on the floor, and he was standing over her.
- He got rocking and talking, rocking and talking, and - pow!
- I had to go up and down, with the right hand from the jab, set it out with the jab - pow - right to the body, get back to the head, mix it up.
- ‘I don't know,’ Greg said, turning about to face her, ‘It started going all funny, sped up, and then pow!’
- All the mileage he had on that arm built up and… pow… it was almost gone, if not for a miracle of surgery that's near common today.
- Not only did he once support himself painting billboards, but he makes art that draws upon their color, scale, iconography, and compositional pow!
- Any pitcher can get overused or take a ball off their head and pow - in an instant the whole rotation or pen has changed.
OriginLate 19th century (originally US): imitative. nounpaʊpou Skiing informal skiing through fresh pow in really cold conditions is my favorite time on the mountain short for powder (sense 2 of the noun) Example sentencesExamples - After a good night's snowfall, you can see dozens of tiny figures trudging up to the snow-peaks, skis on their backs, for that ultimate thrill of untracked 'pow'.
- You'll need the rest after skiing 2,000 vertical feet of tight trees and pow.
- Wiping out in deep pow on a shallow gradient is like falling into a pool and not being able to swim!
- On the other side of the valley we skied laps of pow with Neal.
- In the soft and cut-up pow, they skied well, but again were a little squirrelly as the tips and tails got pushed around a bit.
abbreviationˌpioʊˈdəbljuˌpēōˈdəblyo͞o |