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Definition of whiz-bang in English: whiz-bang(also whizz-bang) nounˈwɪzbaŋˈ(h)wɪzˌbæŋ informal 1North American A resounding success. Dan was a whiz-bang at mechanical things Example sentencesExamples - While the programmes chronicle real-life Irish incidents, their producers are clearly besotted with the whizz-bang of American television's hottest slice of hokum.
- Velocity by Stanton Welch is, as its title suggests, a whiz-bang of ensemble dancing, with meaty group sections for the men that fill the stage with a sizzling kinetic power.
2(especially during the First World War) a small-calibre high-velocity shell. Example sentencesExamples - My own closest call came when we were going over open ground when a whizz-bang burst behind me.
adjectiveˈwɪzbaŋˈ(h)wɪzˌbæŋ North American informal Lively or sensational; fast-paced. a whizz-bang publicity campaign Example sentencesExamples - People have lost the ability to pay attention, and all films that aren't whiz-bang, Bruckheimer action fests are criticized as too slow.
- You may not need a maven's grasp of the latest whiz-bang application, but you definitely want to know about technologies that will make your business more competitive.
- They're not perfect: sometimes we neglect end users' needs, or we lean too hard on whiz-bang technology, and, sure, many of us are first-time cartographers.
- And I sure as hell ain't cheering for yet another whiz-bang computer nerd whose whole job is to magically fill in plot holes the scriptwriters couldn't figure out.
- However headline-grabbing it may have been, the debate around organised crime and politics in Bulgaria goes much further and deeper than the Kostov whiz-bang episode.
- It is easy, she says, for the basics to get lost among petty controversies and whizz-bang advertising.
- Minimize the moving, flashing this or that or the latest whiz-bang script.
- Shaggy's master received a glossy brochure to a whiz-bang two-day seminar in Melbourne.
- Mumbling ‘speech’ was fine on the N64, but on the Xbox, with all its features and whiz-bang technology, is capable of a lot more.
- The Home Office whizz-bang new computer system 2 or so years back was a notable fiasco.
- Bruckheimer and Fuqua seemingly equate the term ‘authentic’ with a lack of whiz-bang, Lord of the Rings style magic tricks.
- I was neutral until I saw the trailer, and whizz-bang stuff aside, I actually winced at some of the dialogue.
- Jobson's self-quilled script opens and closes with an oh-so-serious soliloquy, read against a montage of the solar system, along with a CGI whizz-bang ride across the planets.
- SOG's PowerLock mostly does the same things other whiz-bang schizo-tools do - it just does'em better, and with compound-leverage power.
- Long-Term Capital's whiz-bang managers didn't invest in factories, research and development, home building, or anything else productive.
- It comes back to selling, trading, being fair and all the things that encourage people to buy - it's not just about some whiz-bang gadget.
- He stalks me with his whizz-bang new digital camera.
- Dell argues that while the company hasn't created whiz-bang inventions, it has produced cheap computers for buyers and huge returns for shareholders.
- A lame script and horrible comic acting from lead Brendan Fraser speak louder than all of Selick's whiz-bang animations.
- The Quebec film and video industry is celebrating itself with a whiz-bang, 10-day retrospective from February 15-25.
Synonyms overdramatized, dramatic, melodramatic, exaggerated, overripe, sensationalist, sensationalistic, graphic, explicit, unrestrained, lurid Definition of whiz-bang in US English: whiz-bang(also whizz-bang) nounˈ(h)wɪzˌbæŋˈ(h)wizˌbaNG informal 1North American A resounding success. Dan was a whiz-bang at mechanical things Example sentencesExamples - While the programmes chronicle real-life Irish incidents, their producers are clearly besotted with the whizz-bang of American television's hottest slice of hokum.
- Velocity by Stanton Welch is, as its title suggests, a whiz-bang of ensemble dancing, with meaty group sections for the men that fill the stage with a sizzling kinetic power.
2(especially during World War I) a small-caliber high-velocity shell. Example sentencesExamples - My own closest call came when we were going over open ground when a whizz-bang burst behind me.
adjectiveˈ(h)wɪzˌbæŋˈ(h)wizˌbaNG North American informal Lively or sensational; fast-paced. a whiz-bang publicity campaign Example sentencesExamples - The Home Office whizz-bang new computer system 2 or so years back was a notable fiasco.
- You may not need a maven's grasp of the latest whiz-bang application, but you definitely want to know about technologies that will make your business more competitive.
- Minimize the moving, flashing this or that or the latest whiz-bang script.
- And I sure as hell ain't cheering for yet another whiz-bang computer nerd whose whole job is to magically fill in plot holes the scriptwriters couldn't figure out.
- They're not perfect: sometimes we neglect end users' needs, or we lean too hard on whiz-bang technology, and, sure, many of us are first-time cartographers.
- It comes back to selling, trading, being fair and all the things that encourage people to buy - it's not just about some whiz-bang gadget.
- Bruckheimer and Fuqua seemingly equate the term ‘authentic’ with a lack of whiz-bang, Lord of the Rings style magic tricks.
- Long-Term Capital's whiz-bang managers didn't invest in factories, research and development, home building, or anything else productive.
- I was neutral until I saw the trailer, and whizz-bang stuff aside, I actually winced at some of the dialogue.
- SOG's PowerLock mostly does the same things other whiz-bang schizo-tools do - it just does'em better, and with compound-leverage power.
- It is easy, she says, for the basics to get lost among petty controversies and whizz-bang advertising.
- He stalks me with his whizz-bang new digital camera.
- Mumbling ‘speech’ was fine on the N64, but on the Xbox, with all its features and whiz-bang technology, is capable of a lot more.
- Dell argues that while the company hasn't created whiz-bang inventions, it has produced cheap computers for buyers and huge returns for shareholders.
- People have lost the ability to pay attention, and all films that aren't whiz-bang, Bruckheimer action fests are criticized as too slow.
- However headline-grabbing it may have been, the debate around organised crime and politics in Bulgaria goes much further and deeper than the Kostov whiz-bang episode.
- Jobson's self-quilled script opens and closes with an oh-so-serious soliloquy, read against a montage of the solar system, along with a CGI whizz-bang ride across the planets.
- A lame script and horrible comic acting from lead Brendan Fraser speak louder than all of Selick's whiz-bang animations.
- The Quebec film and video industry is celebrating itself with a whiz-bang, 10-day retrospective from February 15-25.
- Shaggy's master received a glossy brochure to a whiz-bang two-day seminar in Melbourne.
Synonyms overdramatized, dramatic, melodramatic, exaggerated, overripe, sensationalist, sensationalistic, graphic, explicit, unrestrained, lurid |