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whiz-bang

whiz-bang is the alternative form of whizz-bang.

Meaning of whizz-bang

Noun

whizz-bang (plural whizz-bangs)

  1. (UK, historical, slang) A small calibre shell from World War I.
    • Some other new chaps started blazing away, too. Fritz retaliated with machine-guns and whizz-bangs. No casualties.1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 139

Forms of whiz-bang

pluralwhiz-bangs

Questions about whiz-bang

What is whiz-bang the alternative form of?
Whiz-bang is the alternative form of whizz-bang.

Words near whiz-bang in the dictionary

  1. whiz
  2. whiz deletion
  3. whiz deletions
  4. whiz kid
  5. whiz kids
  6. whiz-bang
  7. whiz-bangs
  8. whiz-kid
  9. whiz-kids
  10. whizbang
  11. whizbangery

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