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- noun military, slang Small
calibre shell fromWorld War I .
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Examples
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His success is not based on developing whizz-bang technologies himself; rather he identified, brilliantly, potential that the web held in an area that hadn't bothered heeding it.
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Our films are renowned for their limpid lack of action, which French cineastes proudly contrast with whizz-bang Hollywood fare.
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One problem, as stated, is getting into the marketing trap of having to have the very latest whizz-bang novelty that might only incrementally add to what one already has.
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Once done, all the graphics hiccups were gone and I could benefit fully from all the Aero whizz-bang effects.
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The most whizz-bang thing about Bieber's over-scripted and slightly workaday show is the hydraulics.
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One problem, as stated, is getting into the marketing trap of having to have the very latest whizz-bang novelty that might only incrementally add to what one already has.
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Set in the round inside a former Victorian market hall, the Icelandic singer's latest project – Biophilia – feels less like a traditional gig, and more of a demonstration of whizz-bang musicological ideas.
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It wasn't supposed to be like this—whizz-bang Twenty20 looks very much like a young man's game.
This Is the Old Guys' IPL Richard Lord 2011
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Set in the round inside a former Victorian market hall, the Icelandic singer's latest project – Biophilia – feels less like a traditional gig, and more of a demonstration of whizz-bang musicological ideas.
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He lusted to match his colleagues with his own whizz-bang plan for the NHS.
David Cameron will plough on with the health plan at his peril | Andrew Rawnsley 2012
missanthropist commented on the word whizz-bang
Mixture of morphine and cocaine injected subcutaneously.
Maurice Weseen, A Dictionary of American Slang, 1934
July 12, 2008