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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
whizbang

also whiz-bang, whizz-bang, 1915, originally a soldier's name for a type of German artillery shell in World War I, so called by the Allied troops in reference to its characteristic sound. From whizz + bang (v.).

Wiktionary
whizbang

n. 1 (context dated English) A type of firework that made a whiz before explode 2 (context dated English) A small artillery shell 3 (''by extension'') Someone or something that holds an explosive amount of success, skill or effectiveness.

WordNet
whizbang

  1. n. a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound followed by a bang when it hits [syn: whizzbang]

  2. a firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion [syn: whizzbang]

Usage examples of "whizbang".

The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman are simply episodes of whizbang feats of strength, speed and visual or acoustic acuity by the bionically enhanced humans.

With the whizbang of movie lightning, MEANING shoots into the heart of the dark seethe.

I slept about two hours a night pulling it together, but it was a whizbang when we got it airborne.

The car had a good roomy, comfy feel, and the dash was full of whizbang dials and gizmos, just as I remembered.

Whereas Star Wars was all teenage whizbang gosharootie, Dragon manages to jam the essence of the original trilogy (minus, thankfully, any reference to club-wielding teddy bears) into slightly less than two hours, and replaces Lucas's juvenile humor with soulfulness and martial artistry taken to the level of ballet.

The more than 100 stories and novelettes Woolrich sold to the pulps before the end of the thirties are richly varied in type, including quasi-police procedurals, rapid-action whizbangs, and encounters with the occult.

The more than one hundred stories and novelettes which he sold to the pulps during the Thirties are richly varied in type, including quasi-police procedurals, rapid-action whizbangs, and encounters with the occult.

The more than 100 stories and novelettes Woolrich sold to the pulps before the end of the '30s are richly varied in type, including quasi-police procedurals, rapid-action whizbangs, and encounters with the occult.

Woolrich wrote all sorts of stories, including quasi-police procedurals, rapid-action whizbangs, and tales of the occult.