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- noun Plural form of
whiz-bang .
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Examples
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"I didn't lard it up with whiz-bangs and gimmicks," Dawkins says.
Fall Books: `Wimpy Kid,' `Heroes Of Olympus' Among Tops 2011
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And find the uncomplicated whiz-bangs pretty damned dull.
sometimes when i take a peek outside of my little cage everyone looks so asleep ashacat 2007
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My only salvation was that Bunny did not seem interested in the usual collection of whiz-bangs and wowers that most visitors to the Bazaar find irresistible.
Little Myth Marker Asprin, Robert 1985
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The position was downhill from the Huns, and they kept sending over and down a continuous stream of "pip-squeaks", "whiz-bangs", and
A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes
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If there was an interval of time when we were not being served with the "dead" messages, the hiatus was filled with whiz-bangs and gas.
S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant
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Crash! bang! boom! and like rabbits to earth once more; we have been spotted, and whiz-bangs fall -- a dozen wasted German shells.
Winning a Cause World War Stories Inez Bigwood 1901
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This is NOT adding another newscast with a few whiz-bangs here and there.
Lost Remote 2010
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And it AMAZES me to hear these wonderfully "knowledgeable", ostensibly erudite whiz-bangs focus on and ascribe blame to various disjointed "pieces of the elephant".
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And it AMAZES me to hear these wonderfully "knowledgeable", ostensibly erudite whiz-bangs focus on and ascribe blame to various disjointed "pieces of the elephant".
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And it AMAZES me to hear these wonderfully "knowledgeable", ostensibly erudite whiz-bangs focus on and ascribe blame to various disjointed "pieces of the elephant".
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