Meanings
- An abrupt or explosive zooming noise; the sound of something powerfully speeding by.
Zap is a comic-book hero - Zap! Powie! Kazoom!; why have you retired, Zap, when we need you so much?
1975, Rennie Ellis, Australian Graffiti, page [1]1 more example
I saw a white light flash from side to side and I heard a loud buzz zooming in my head - kazoom, kazoom!
1988, Good Housekeeping, volume 207, page 62
plural kazooms
- in pluralslangA (large) female breast.
The clasp slips free (gad, what lush kazooms) and she even helps him pull off the blouse that is now cuffing her at the elbows.
1987, Mark Christensen, “Bang Your Head”, in Mortal Belladaywic, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 1322 more examples
“What’s a mambo?” “You know, whamos, kaboopies, chugamuggas,” amplified Hootman, making jiggling motions with both hands in front of his narrow chest. “He must mean,” realized Mr. Giggle, “mammywammies, chubbles, kazooms.” “What kind of nerfing act do you think we’re doing. We’re beloved by millions of frapping little kids. Do those little loyal-hearted tykes want to see kazooms?”
1977, Ron Goulart, chapter 10, in Crackpot (Fragmented America), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 58Loggin flips the magazine onto the desk. “Look at them kazooms! You ever see this shere—Cosmo-politan? I found it in the lobby. Fine piece of titty on the cover, but ain’t worth a turd on the inside.[…]”
1979, Harold Jaffe, “Sept. 3”, in Mole’s Pity, New York, N.Y.: Fiction Collective, →ISBN, page 105Synonyms: assets, babylons, balloons, baps, badonkers, bangers, bazongas, bazookas
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From ka- + zoom. Compare kaboom.
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