whiz-bang

or whiz·bang, whizz-bang

[ noun hwiz-bang, wiz-; adjective hwiz-bang, wiz- ]
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noun
  1. Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.

  2. a firecracker with a similar effect.

  1. Informal. whiz1 (def. 5).

adjective
  1. Informal. first-rate; topnotch: a whiz-bang navigator.

Origin of whiz-bang

1
First recorded in 1910–15; imitative of the sound

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How to use whiz-bang in a sentence

  • "Yes, up went my little 'and like a whiz-bang," announced Bindle.

    Adventures of Bindle | Herbert George Jenkins