An exclamation imitating the sound described under WHIZZ sb. and v.; as adv. = with a whizz.

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1812.  H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., Fire & Ale. The water … bubbled and simmer’d and started off, whizz!

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1818.  Scott, Br. Lamm., xx. Whiz went the bolt.

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1869.  Browning, Ring & Bk., XII. 347. When whiz and thump went axe.

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  b.  Comb. whi·zz-bang colloq. the shell of a small-caliber high-velocity German gun, so called from the noise it made; also as int.

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1915.  ‘Ian Hay,’ First Hundred Thou., II. xviii. 260. A whizz-bang is a particularly offensive form of shell which bursts two or three times over, like a Chinese cracker.

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1920.  Lipscomb, Staff Tales, 59. Whizz—bang! Something grazes parapet.

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