Meanings
nounwhizz-bang (plural whizz-bangs)
plural whizz-bangs · alternative whiz-bang
- UKhistoricalslanggovernmentA small calibre shell from World War I.
Some other new chaps started blazing away, too. Fritz retaliated with machine-guns and whizz-bangs. No casualties.
1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 139
Origin
From the noise made.
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