whizz-bang
See also: whizzbang
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the noise made.
Pronunciation
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Noun
whizz-bang (plural whizz-bangs)
- (British, military slang, historical) A small calibre shell from World War I.
- 1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 139:
- Some other new chaps started blazing away, too. Fritz retaliated with machine-guns and whizz-bangs. No casualties.