zing

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"It was one of the first times this year that this group had what I call the zing factor,"

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  1. noun A brief high-pitched humming or buzzing sound, such as that made by a swiftly passing object or a taut vibrating string.
  2. intransitive verb To make a zing.
  3. intransitive verb To move swiftly with or as if with a zing: an arrow zinging toward its target.
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  • You thought that the flash-bang-zing was the important part of the show, so you make fun of it. —  Asimov'sSF,June2008
  • My jaded palate needs something with a bit more zing Salima had zing, and better still, she had a first-class brain. —  Analog, July-August 2006
  • To add a little more zing, the ghosts (which are sort of an orange-ish red) turn a green-ish orange in milk (or I suppose any other liquid, but what else are we really eating our cereal with), and in turn they sort of turn the milk green. —  Branded in the 80s!
  • But the batch purchased last week (pictured) seemed to have shrunken and lost their zing, and there was no perceptible spice. —  PegasusNews.com stories
  • The concept here with debt consolidation is like; by collaterali zing, the asset owner agrees to allow the forced sale of the asset in order to pay back the loan and hence the collateralization of the loan allows a lower interest rate than without it. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
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