flooey! excl.
(orig. US) an echoic excl. designed to resemble the sound of an explosion.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 37: And I tried to get under it and flooey — I didn’t. | |
| Fighting Blood 270: I took aim at a tree about a mile away, set myself, and – flooey. I don’t even get a foul! | |
| Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl. |
In phrases
eccentric, unbalanced.
| ‘The New Fable of the Intermittent Fusser’ in Ade’s Fables 59: He was on the waiting list for the Nut Club. Our Old Friend was flooey in the Filbert. |
(US) to go wrong.
| Dict. Amer. Sl. | |
| (con. 1914–18) Three Lights from a Match 162: I seen it go flooey off the road while I was duckin’ fer that shell. | |
| (con. 1920s) Judgement Day in Studs Lonigan (1936) 568: He’d like to have seen Martin get wise before [...] his heart had gone flooey on him! | |
| Stories (1985) 320: It was bad luck that their fridge had gone flooey. |