whiz-bang
noun
a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
whizbang,
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a variation of
whiz-bang.
Example Sentences
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Why do the people who manage Dodger Stadium feel that every single second of dead air has to be filled with loud music, sound effects and electronic whizbang?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
Much of what’s new this year in Android 13 is not whizbang new features but small tweaks meant to make the ecosystem a little more seamless.
From The Verge ● May 11, 2022
The same guys and gals are still there doing a really whizbang job of making sure that company is running well.
From The Verge ● May 3, 2022
Now it’s sneaking in amid the whizbang tentpoles with its measured tones and big-theme professionalism, like someone in evening wear wandering an arcade hoping to lure someone away for an important talk.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2019
Then, clutching a black attache case imprinted with his silver initials, Robert Gene Baker, 36, the whizbang from Pickens, S.C., hurried into a hearing room in the old Senate Office Building.
From Time Magazine Archive
