Usually means: Sound of air escaping quickly.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word hissing:

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  1. hissing: Merriam-Webster
  2. hissing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hissing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hissing, hissing: Wordnik
  5. hissing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hissing: Wiktionary
  7. hissing: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Hissing, hissing: Dictionary.com
  9. hissing: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. hissing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Hissing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Hissing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. hissing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. hissing: Rhymezone
  15. Hissing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. hissing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. hissing: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hissing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Hissing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hissing: Encyclopedia

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  1. hissing: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hissing)

▸ adjective:  that produces or is accompanied with a hiss
▸ noun:  The sound of a hiss.

Similar:
noisy, sizzling, sifflement, siss, sibilating, whiz, humming, fizzle, swish, sibilant, more...

Opposite:
whispering, murmuring, muttering

Types:
sibilant, fricative, affricate, more...

Phrases:
hissing snake, Madagascar hissing cockroach, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, Hissing Prigs in Static Couture, hissing sound, more...

Adjectives:
loud, faint, great, soft, much, slight, sharp, low, gentle, violent, strange

Colors:
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Similar:
noisy, sizzling, sifflement, siss, sibilating, whiz, humming, fizzle, swish, sibilant, more...

Opposite:
whispering, murmuring, muttering

Types:
sibilant, fricative, affricate, more...

Phrases:
hissing snake, Madagascar hissing cockroach, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, Hissing Prigs in Static Couture, hissing sound, a word that makes a hissing sound, more...

Adjectives:
loud, faint, great, soft, much, slight, sharp, low, gentle, violent, strange

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     charcoal,     smoke,     pewter, more...



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