whizbangery

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noun

A device or effect that is startling or amazing.

Scrabble 32

Meanings

nounwhizbangery (uncountable)

alternative whizzbangery

  1. uncountableA device or effect that is startling or amazing.

    Safeguarding the right to vote isn’t 21st-century policy whizbangery, but it’s vital to the survival of democracy

    2018, Washington Post
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    Perhaps the public was simply less infatuated with the whole notion of space travel, skeptical about its cost, bored with its logistical whizbangery — certainly the television networks gave spaceflight far less euphoric coverage than in NASA's heyday.

    1985, William A. Henry, Visions of America: how we saw the 1984 election

    1996: A Murder of Crows by Steve Shepard While Roseland's public relations department boasted of the hospital's magnificently equipped trauma center and its plethora of the newest and most expensive medical whizbangery, the fact was that Rose- land's staff was not yet up to the quality of the fancy new gizmos it had to play with.

    ... and there are the hedonists who find their lives' meaning in varied and endless sexual encounters or in gourmet foods and wines and in maximizing the sensual pleasure of life and the materialists, who live to own great homes and cars and multi-screen TVs, and the technologists, who devote their lives to computers and whizbangery, and the sports lovers, who spend much time memorizing baseball and football stats and watching sports on TV ...

    2010, Abalo Kossi, In Lumine Tuo: Why Believe in God?

    Again I employ the psychic whizbangery and hop into the head of the nearest oncoming car— hello, Mrs. Schulte!—and make her slow her car and slew it at an angle, blocking most of the lanes.

    2014, John Hornor Jacobs, The Shibboleth

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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