whiz-bang

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

/ noun ˈʰwɪzˌbæŋ, ˈwɪz-; adjective ˈʰwɪzˈbæŋ, ˈwɪz- /

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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.

adjective

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

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Origin of whiz-bang

First recorded in 1910–15; imitative of the sound

Then, like the whizbang of a fire cracker, a thought struck him.
Red Dynamite|Roy J. Snell
Come and be experimented on by Sergt.-Major Whizbang, the great military spellbinder.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 3rd, 1920|Various