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whiz-bang

  [n. hwiz-bang, wiz-; adj. 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.
3. Informal. whiz 1 (def. 5).
–adjective
4. Informal. first-rate; topnotch: a whiz-bang navigator.
Also, whizbang, whizz-bang.

Origin:
1910–15; orig. imit.
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whizzbang

noun
1. a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound followed by a bang when it hits [syn: whizbang] 
2. a firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion [syn: whizbang] 
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