whiz-bang

or whiz·bang, whizz-bang

[noun hwiz-bang, wiz-; adjective hwiz-bang, wiz-]

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noun

Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
a firecracker with a similar effect.
Informal. whiz¹(def 5).

adjective

Informal. first-rate; topnotch: a whiz-bang navigator.

Origin of whiz-bang

First recorded in 1910–15; orig. imitative

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Related Words for whiz-bang

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Historical Examples of whiz-bang

Just as the order reached us along came a whiz-bang and burst.
The Glory of The Coming
Irvin S. Cobb
Suddenly—“whiz-bang, whiz-bang” right at the door of the dugout.
With the Ulster Division in France
Arthur Purefoy Irwin Samuels
"Yes, up went my little 'and like a whiz-bang," announced Bindle.
Adventures of Bindle
Herbert George Jenkins
It would have taken a "whiz-bang" to catch up to me that day.
Into the Jaws of Death
Jack O'Brien
The "whiz-bang" starts with a rough whirr like a flushing cock partridge, and goes off on contact with a tremendous bang.
A Yankee in the Trenches
R. Derby Holmes