whizzer
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Origin of whizzer
Example Sentences
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Click went the machine, and the whizzer stopped whizzing.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
It's mighty easy to run a whizzer when you've got the only loaded gun in camp.
From Copper Streak Trail by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
Let The Spider or anybody like him run a whizzer on me after I run a good hoss ragged to git here with his doggone letter—and then git stuck up like I was a hoss-thief?
From The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Brinkerhoff, R. M.
This deal can't be no whizzer like you run in on Sanderson.
From Square Deal Sanderson by Seltzer, Charles Alden
"Hell!" exclaimed one man, intolerantly; "I reckon she's a whizzer!"
From The Trail Horde by Seltzer, Charles Alden
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