Home › Words › V › vroomvroom/vɹuːm/vroom means the sound of an engine, especially when it is revving up.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, vroom ranks #16,765 of 42,785 for Qualifying.vroom is pronounced /vɹuːm/.EtymologyImitative.intjThe sound of an engine, especially when it is revving up.e.g.“I never saw my uncle’s Ferrari, but I could always hear it going vroom as it flew past by my house.”nameA surname from Dutch.nounThe sound of an engine revving up.e.g.“Our ears are assaulted with the screeching of tires, the crashing of trash cans, the exaggerated vrooms of a revving engine.” — 2003, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 48, number 2, page 52:verbTo move with great speed; to zoom.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).