Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. dated A type of firework that made a whiz before exploding
- n. dated A small artillery shell
- n. Someone or something that holds an explosive amount of success, skill or effectiveness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound followed by a bang when it hits
- n. a firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion
Examples
“Republicans, who once were far ahead of Democrats in whizbang TV technology, let their party fall behind the nerd curve as Howard Dean and later John Kerry revolutionized and then exploited online fund-raising in 2004.”
“I've served a million years as several clones on all the star destroyers I obviously know more than you! hahaha wtf peasant 3: I don't care what kind of whizbang guns they have, alderaan is full of poor ppl like us.”
“In a meeting with analysts earlier this month, George Buckley, 3M's British-born chief executive, promised that recent acquisitions and "whizbang" technologies coming out of the company's labs will accelerate sales growth.”
3M's Growth Ambitions Raise Questions for Analysts - WSJ.com
“The radicalism of Höller's most radical pieces is precisely how little 'art' there is in excess of the whizbang imagineering, and it's silly to pretend that people are getting a lot more out of it than a fun ride.”
The Huffington Post: ARTINFO: Carsten Holler and the Slippery Slope of Relational Aesthetics
“A whizbang beginning: It's hard to touch "Lost's" opening scene: A man wakes up in a stand of bamboo to realize he's just survived a plane crash, then rushes to the beach to discover the wreckage.”
The Washington Post: AMC's 'Walking Dead': Have we found our next 'Lost'?
“But merits of the particular airplane aside, maintaining robust air superiority is generally some of the best dollars spent on the US military. the chocolate whizbang Says:”
“If they buy the right whizbang super magnum rifle they are destined to start doing this in the real world, having never hunted much of anything at any range, if at all.”
“And in the course of all this social media whizbang talk, Robert Tanenbaum from the Nats chimed in with thoughts on a different sort of medium.”
“In pricing 20% buys you 80% of the core functionality, the last 80% adds all the whizbang.”
“Too many states force their citizens into whizbang with healthcare because patients and doctors and drug companies lobby.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whizbang’.
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Military Matters
words of mass (or minor) destruction
caltrop, stylet, chassepot, baldric, rewet, blunderbuss, musket, flintlock, howitzer, ordnance, casque, dragoon and 148 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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simple & useful15
handsomely, fleshed-out, perpetually, consorting, blood relation, cubistic, implausibly, tom swifties, coiffed, progeny, deconstructed, humdrum and 93 more...
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Pop Culture
Comic strip character names and words, along with modern slang oddities.
rowrbazzle, pogo, rhinocerwurst, bitchin', cowabunga, joe btfsplk, churchy la femme, howland owl, porky pine, miss mamselle hep..., shmoo, unobtanium and 390 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, W
washboard, winterbourne, winze, wirble, waterway, windrow, winceyette, waft, whiffletree, wheelbarrow, whicker, wacky and 170 more...
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Great Race Horse Names6
Poetry in motion
what will be, torrents of fire, just bad, fire the witch, cute jammies, whispered warning, alaskan hula, i'm a little fish, idon'tknow maybe, educated lady, well whoopdeedoo, twisted wit and 66 more...
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danceswithtrout's Words
crepuscular, étouffée, fandango, flimflam, avuncular, deleterious, pernicious, schlep, debauch, unguent, ablution, grit and 25 more...
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Baby, You're a Firework
cherry bomb, whizbang, cannon cracker, ladyfinger, banger, cracker, ashcan, gerb, crow scarer, squib, squib-cracker, fizgig and 27 more...
Tweets
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bilby Australian slang - a campervan with a sliding door. Sep 8, 2008
whichbe See urolagnia. Sep 8, 2008