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  • interjection Alternative spelling of shazaam.

Etymologies

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Arguably coined by Bill Parker in February 1940.

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  • love this word!!!

    May 21, 2009

  • It was Gomer's favorite, too!

    May 22, 2009

  • In my cricket club, shazam is synonymous with knuckle bump.

    May 22, 2009

  • In my cricket club

    In my cricket club

    Help! I can't stop

    saying...

    In my cricket club

    May 22, 2009

  • ditto.

    but in my mind it has exclamation points

    May 22, 2009

  • you are sooooooo right

    SHAZAM!!!!!

    see much better

    May 28, 2009

  • The magic word that turns Billy Batson into Captain Marvel. It's an acronym based on the names of the figures that give him his power: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury.

    June 9, 2009

  • In geology, it's when the cores don't match--a line drawn to say 'we don't know how to correlate this.'

    August 5, 2010