Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. military, slang Small calibre shell from World War I.
Etymologies
- From the noise made. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It wasn't supposed to be like this—whizz-bang Twenty20 looks very much like a young man's game.”
“Set in the round inside a former Victorian market hall, the Icelandic singer's latest project – Biophilia – feels less like a traditional gig, and more of a demonstration of whizz-bang musicological ideas.”
“One problem, as stated, is getting into the marketing trap of having to have the very latest whizz-bang novelty that might only incrementally add to what one already has.”
“The most whizz-bang thing about Bieber's over-scripted and slightly workaday show is the hydraulics.”
“He lusted to match his colleagues with his own whizz-bang plan for the NHS.”
The Guardian: David Cameron will plough on with the health plan at his peril | Andrew Rawnsley
“Once done, all the graphics hiccups were gone and I could benefit fully from all the Aero whizz-bang effects.”
“His success is not based on developing whizz-bang technologies himself; rather he identified, brilliantly, potential that the web held in an area that hadn't bothered heeding it.”
“Our films are renowned for their limpid lack of action, which French cineastes proudly contrast with whizz-bang Hollywood fare.”
“So I'm curious to know if any of you are still fishing the classics, or have you all switched over to the latest holographic whizz-bang?”
“In a state-of-the-art television studio with the most advanced whizz-bang computer graphics at his fingertips, Beck uses a chalkboard.”
The Huffington Post: Joseph A. Palermo: Glenn Beck Riffs on my HuffPost Article
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whizz-bang’.
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Drabble-writing prompt words
Words that are good prompts for writing drabbles (fanfic)
blasphemy, miscreant, je taime, phantasmagoria, lottery, dustup, whizz-bang, maelstrom, tryst, secret alliance, skinny dipping, tingle and 8 more...
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What the Dickens!
Words and phrases coined or made popular by Charles Dickens.
Sources: http://thewordmaven.wordpress.com...Scrooge, Pecksniffian, Pickwickian, Faginesque, Bumble, Dolly Varden, Uriah Heap, Dickensian, micawber, podsnappery, A-1, ain’t and 18 more...
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noggie42's Words
kleptocracy, zeugma, shilly-shally, hierophant, maunder, periwinkle, verisimilitude, diphthong, flippant, ludicrous, kreplach, gullet and 69 more...
Tweets
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missanthropist Mixture of morphine and cocaine injected subcutaneously.
Maurice Weseen, A Dictionary of American Slang, 1934 Jul 11, 2008