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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.
3.
Informal. whiz1 (def. 5).
adjective
4.
Informal. first-rate; topnotch: a whiz-bang navigator.
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Whizzbang
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Also, whiz·bang, whizz-bang.
Origin:
1910–15; orig. imitative
1910–15; orig. imitative
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