whizzer
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Origin of whizzer
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Click went the machine, and the whizzer stopped whizzing.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
Anyhow, it's going to be a whizzer, and I want to talk to you about it.
From Tom Swift and His Air Scout, or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
The washer is followed by a whizzer, which is an apparatus intended to free the berry by purely mechanical means from superfluous moisture.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
You’re fast with your guns, but you can’t run any whizzer in on me—you can’t intimidate me.
From 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer
You can't run no whizzer like that on me.
From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs
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