Yung Lean

I hate it when people try to explain music. The best thing about music is that it's invisible. If you make a song and someone is like, 'Explain it,' and you explain the message, it's like - poof. It all crashes down.

Swedish Musician

Eddie Bracken

But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

American Actor

Barbara Ehrenreich

I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.

American Writer

Victoria Legrand

My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.

Musician

Francisco Costa

Rio was a period of my life, and then, poof, I'm gone. I was very young living here, just kind of floating. New York was a foundation for everything I do today. Rio was the bridge.

Brazilian Designer

Anne Sweeney

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

American Businesswoman

Graham Norton

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

Irish Celebrity

Dave Portnoy

I want to make a boatload of money and i want to poof and maybe make it on the senior tour, live on islands, get a bigger Nantucket house.

American Celebrity

Mark McKinnon

Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

American Businessman

Kelvin Fletcher

Yeah I had the poof thing before the acting because I did ballet.

English Actor

Often used to describe sudden disappearances in stories or magic acts.

Magic Context

Can imply something ended or vanished surprisingly fast, not always literally.

Figurative Use

Mimics a soft explosion sound, evoking imagery of something puffing away.

Expressive Sound

Often used to express surprise at a sudden disappearance or change.

Exclamation Surprise

Adds a dramatic effect when retelling events in a conversation.

Conversational Flair

Conveys a light-hearted, often humorous tone in speech.

Light-hearted Tone

Considered offensive and should be avoided. Use with caution, if at all.

Offensive Slur

Understanding the cultural context is important when encountering this term.

Cultural Sensitivity

Language changes, and words that were once common can become offensive.

Historical Evolution

 and realized they had made a very embarrassing mistake. They had not accounted for some very subtle characteristics of the Earth's motion around the Sun, which affected how they measured this planet going around the pulsar. And it turns out that when they did account for it correctly, poof -- their planet disappeared. It wasn't real.

The secret to scientific...

 and raise your eyebrow about a quarter of an inch, you don't have to say a word because they know that that means that you want more. And if we could transform teacher education to focus on teaching teachers how to create that magic then poof! we could make dead classes come alive,

Christopher Emdin: Teach...

 or my vision for how it should work. I said, let's focus on the problem. I have an order here and what I want to do is I want to put red, green and blue in this box right here. What I need is a system where I put out my hand and — poof! —

Mick Mountz: What...

 For the team I joined, it was a rare chance to think deeply about lab instruction. In undergrad, I rarely knew what I was doing in labs. A couple of drops of this and a couple of drops of that, and poof -- it would turn red.

Online learning could...

 And a crazy thing the very act of doing the thing that scared me undid the fear, made it not scary. My fear of public speaking, my social anxiety, poof, gone. It's amazing, the power of one word. "Yes" changed my life.

My year of saying yes to...

 That' a big deal. And even more important, if we build these membership cards on a blockchain, no company can ever take Lisa's community away from her. Instagram could -- poof! -- disappear tomorrow

A Creator-Led Internet,...

 it's vanished we vanquished it poof in the rich world diseases that threatened millions of us just a generation ago no longer exists hardly diphtheria rubella polio does anyone even know what those

The danger of science...

 we were going me and my uncle youngest uncle and him he had a fight so we all preparing it on he's like everybody he was the favor anyone like this first round like 1050 second poof and he went

This Taxi Driver Has an...

 so even the people of the last two millennia, most of the words they ever said -- poof! -- disappeared. Let's turn to now, the networked age. How many of you have recorded something today?

Jeff Hancock: 3 types of...

 turns into into hope and is easy for me as well to train someone who has already passed through the experience of disability poof they learn much faster the motivation the empathy they can