whizz-bang
See also: whizzbang
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the noise made.
Noun
whizz-bang (plural whizz-bangs)
- (military, slang) Small calibre shell from World War I.
- 1915, Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That, (1929), Penguin Modern Classics 1960, p. 87:
- Some other new chaps started blazing away too. Fritz retaliated with machine-guns and whizz-bangs. No casualties.
- 1915, Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That, (1929), Penguin Modern Classics 1960, p. 87:
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