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

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Then, like the whizbang of a fire cracker, a thought struck him.
Red Dynamite
Roy J. Snell

Word Origin and History for whizbang

n.

1915, originally a soldier's name for a type of German artillery shell in World War I, so called by the Allied troops in reference to its characteristic sound.