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whiz-bang

/noun hwiz-bang, wiz-; adjective hwiz-bang, wiz-/US // noun ˈʰwɪzˌbæŋ, ˈwɪz-; adjective ˈʰwɪzˈbæŋ, ˈwɪz- //

呼啸而过,呼啦啦,呼啸而至,呼风唤雨

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
    • : a firecracker with a similar effect.
    • : Informal. whiz.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Informal. first-rate; topnotch: a whiz-bang navigator.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Forms: whiz-bangs

Examples

  • Did the French monarchy end not with a bang—or a whimper—but a smile?

  • More clumsily, fireworks stand in for the Big Bang and a potato and peas are invoked to explain relativity.

  • This professional seducer, of sorts, has been pictured holding a T-shirt reading “Diss Fatties, Bang Hotties.”

  • As ends of eras go, he recalls, it was mostly whimper and not much bang.

  • In 1996, John Paul II called the Big Bang theory “more than a hypothesis.”

  • Bang went the fragile bulb, as it splintered into a thousand atoms, and the mercury shot in sparkling globules over the table.

  • Garnache closed the door upon him with a bang, and smiled quietly as he turned to Valerie.

  • Miss Boutts replied that they were too busy in the daytime, but were asked once a week to a "bang-up" affair.

  • Immediately the door was opened just enough to let the two men glide in; then it was shut with a bang and bolted.

  • We lit our pipes and strolled over in silence to the men's quarters, and it was his odd Canadian expression "Gee whiz!"