whiz-bang
or whiz·bang, whizz-bang
[noun hwiz-bang, wiz-; adjective hwiz-bang, wiz-]
- 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).
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- Informal. first-rate; topnotch: a whiz-bang navigator.
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Origin of whiz-bang
First recorded in 1910–15; orig. imitative
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You know what a Jerry looks like and what a Whizzbang sounds like.