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familiar jeune prodige m;∎ she's a computer whizz-kid c'est un vrai génie de l'informatiqueThis seemingly lottery-like sector is famous for being over-crowded by poorly equipped entrepreneurs attracted by well publicised "get-megarich-quick" tales of Internet businesses started by whizz-kid teenagers in their parents' garages who then float their companies a couple of years later.
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[fam.] [U] enfant prodige; enfant surdoué; petit génieEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > whizz kid
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(colloq) ['wɪzkɪd], US ['hwɪz-] noun jeune prodige m -
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∎ a car whizzed past une voiture est passée à toute allure;∎ I'll whizz down to the shops je vais faire un saut dans les magasins;∎ the holiday has just whizzed by les vacances ont passé à toute vitesse∎ bullets whizzed around or past him des balles sifflaient tout autour ou passaient près de lui en sifflant2 noun(a) (hissing sound) sifflement m∎ I'll just have a (quick) whizz round with the Hoover ®/the duster je vais juste passer un petit coup d'aspirateur/de chiffon∎ she's a whizz at chemistry c'est un as en chimie;∎ she's a real computer whizz c'est vraiment un as de l'informatique;∎ he's a real whizz in the kitchen il cuisine comme un chef∎ to take a whizz (urinate) faire pipi►► familiar whizz kid jeune prodige□ m;∎ she's a computer whizz kid c'est un vrai génie de l'informatique
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