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
The typical whizzer is a vertical column fed at the bottom and delivering at the top.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
One whizzer which I examined was nine inches long, one and three-fourths inches broad, and about a quarter of an inch thick in the thickest part.
From The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 by Matthews, Washington
He's takin' trouble to run a whizzer on me--get me guessin'.
From Partners of Chance by Knibbs, Henry Herbert
Clay he's the best-natured fellow you ever did see, but there can't nobody run a whizzer on him, y' betcha.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by Raine, William MacLeod
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