Meanings
- Exclamation indicating a successful outcome or sudden realization.
I have never gotten anything less than an A- when poster board is involved. So — bazinga! I'd make a poster of the life and times of Markie's family. Guaranteed to melt his parents' hearts.
2012, Paulsen, Gary, Crush: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Love, Wendy Lamb Books, →ISBN, page 1181 more example
Go back to the iPod app on your iOS device and click on the “More” tab. There you will see a new heading titled “Shared” which lets you choose between your iOS library or any Shared Libraries you have enabled on your WiFi network. Bazinga!
2011 March 8, Keller Mike, “How To Enable iTunes Home Sharing in iOS 4.3”, in PCWorld, →ISSN, retrieved 22 Jun 2012 - Exclamation acknowledging a witty remark.
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So, Marc, as you can see, we don't use the word "pot" very often in stories. But you also see that it is used frequently in headlines. The reason is simple and has nothing to do with a lack of respect for medical marijuana users. When it comes to headlines, size matters, and the word "pot" fits in a lot more places than "marijuana." It's really that simple. It would be easy to figure that headline writers just aren't what they used to be, that they've gone to pot, so to speak (bazinga!).
2012 September 1, “Have you ever tried to fit 'mari-juana' in 1 column?”, in Mail Tribune, →ISSN, retrieved 27 Sep 2012Synonyms: zing
plural bazingas
- informalA thingamabob, a placeholder word for any unknown or nonspecific object.
Anyone have a good guess as to what the bazinga is that I've crudely circled in this photo?
2003 March 17, Tim Mullen, “Re: Upcoming Auction”, in rec.antiques.radio+phono (Usenet)
Synonyms & antonyms
interjectionExclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.
interjectionExclamation indicating a successful outcome or sudden realization.
interjectionExclamation acknowledging a witty remark.
Origin
Probably from zing. Appears to originate from the X-Files season 7 episode "Hollywood A.D." Popularized as the catchphrase of the character Sheldon Cooper on the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
bazinga. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bazinga
“bazinga.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bazinga. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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