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whizz-bangs

whizz-bangs is the plural 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

Questions about whizz-bangs

What is whizz-bangs the plural of?
Whizz-bangs is the plural of whizz-bang.

Words near whizz-bangs in the dictionary

  1. whizz
  2. whizz kid
  3. whizz kids
  4. whizz-bang
  5. whizz-bangery
  6. whizz-bangs
  7. whizzbang
  8. whizzbangery
  9. whizzbangs
  10. whizzed
  11. whizzer

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