shazam

What it means

1. Used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed.

   So I brought you down the trail on the sled, put you in my car and, shazam, here we are.

   2009, K. L. Denman, Me, Myself and Ike, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 185

   3 more examples

   The Tahitian kids had ridden out most of their lives, and they were busy riding in on their surf mats and belly boards. But when they met the out part, shazam!

   1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer

   My parents lived in the Last Naïf Age: the last ‘good war’, atoms for peace, and parental philosophy that said children should do and say exactly what we do and say, and Shazam! You'll be us.

   2008, Tom Bissinger, Da Capo:Selected Writings 1967-2004: Selected Writings 1967-2004, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 91

   Once, when I needed Ms. Stone's help tying my shoe, she asked me, “What's the magic word?” I said, “Abracadabra.” When she asked me to try again, I said, “Shazam?”

   2017, James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, Pottymouth and Stoopid, pages 13-14

   Synonyms: abracadabra, alakazam, hocus-pocus, presto chango, presto, voila, ta-da, abracadabra

In a sentence

The Tahitian kids had ridden out most of their lives, and they were busy riding in on their surf mats and belly boards. But when they met the out part, shazam!

1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer

Where it comes from

Apparently coined by American comic book writer Bill Parker in February 1940, from the first letters of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury.