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  • noun Plural form of whiz-bang.

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Examples

  • "I didn't lard it up with whiz-bangs and gimmicks," Dawkins says.

    Fall Books: `Wimpy Kid,' `Heroes Of Olympus' Among Tops 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • This is NOT adding another newscast with a few whiz-bangs here and there.

    Lost Remote 2010

  • 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".

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • 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".

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • 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".

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

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