Etymology
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
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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 Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
And you can't run no whizzer on me, Barela.
From The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
Shucks," he sneered, winking piratically at his brother-culprit; "she's tryin' to run a whizzer in on us.
From The Trail Horde by Seltzer, Charles Alden
And that time him and Demijohn sure had one whizzer of a time.
From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Knibbs, Henry Herbert
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