whizzbang

1. 1.

   a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound followed by a bang when it hits

   Synonymswhizbangwhizbang shell

   Broadershell
2. 2.

   a firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion

   Synonymswhizbang

   Broaderfirecracker

Other forms of whizzbang

plural

whizzbangs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about whizzbang

What does whizzbang mean?

whizzbang means "a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound followed by a bang when it hits". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whizzbang?

whizzbang has 2 syllables: whizz-bang. The stress falls on "whizz".

What is another word for whizzbang?

Close synonyms include whizbang, whizbang shell, whizbang. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whizzbang a common word?

whizzbang is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.