1919 I. Hornibrook Camp Fire Girls in War & Peace ii. 29 Iver says himself that he has a ‘whiz-bang’ temper.

1949 Billboard 12 Mar. 151 (advt.) Most realistic bowling theme ever built into a pin game!..Percussion bumpers—whiz-bang action!

1972 National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 20/5 Bernstein inclines to brisk tempos; it would be interesting to see a regiment actually try marching to his whiz-bang ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’.

2002 J. Thompson Wide Blue Yonder iii. 203 The room revolved in a whizbang spin like a planet torn loose from its orbit.

1928 Life 14 Sept. 26/1 The Front Page, Times Square—Whiz-bang comedy-melodrama of newspapermen and crooks.

1965 Listener 16 Sept. 431/1 I'm not suggesting that programmes on the arts should be as whizz-bang as The Dick Van Dyke Show, but I do suspect that Drama and Light Entertainment could teach them a lot.

1984 Listener 5 Jan. 8/3 As for home-grown, whizzbang, laugh-a-line comedy—Channel 4, where are you?

1988 Tennis Times Summer 20/1 He more than made up by ‘murdering’ a lack-lustre McEnroe..in just 79 whizz-bang minutes.

2002 Asimov′s Sci. Fiction May 132/1 These novels..arrayed themselves in streamlined, whiz-bang plots, however improbable.

1920 A. M. Candee Business Let. Writing xxiii. 329 It's not easy for me to dictate one of these whizz-bang, jerk-her-into-high kind of letters.

1956 J. Barth Floating Opera xxviii. 259 Yes, sir, a brand-new line-up this year, folks, from a crackerjack start to a whiz-bang finish!

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 161 Other superlatives currently in favour are:..swell, whizzing, whiz-bang, whizzo.

1964 A. Sexton Let. 8 Apr. in Self-portrait in Lett. (1977) 241 You have a whiz-bang sense of humor.

1975 P. Roth Reading Myself & Others ii. 179 My taste, and my talent, such as it was, was for the flashy, whiz-bang catch rather than the towering fly.

1990 N.Y. Times 7 Dec. a4 (heading) The whiz-bang ad-agency name for their enormous new..air terminal—Airtropolis.

2005 Daily Mail (Nexis) 3 Jan. 71 The SFA strike upon a whizzbang idea to raise morale.

1966 N.Y. Times 4 Apr. 33/2 First grade scholars in Palo Alto, California will have two teachers beginning in the fall—one will be a regular stand-up, blackboard-using instructor, the other will be a whiz-bang computer capable of doing just about everything required for a first grade academic program.

1974 T. Bendixson Instead of Cars i. 19 There is no whizz bang new technology that is going to beat the car at its own game in the next five to ten years.

1983 Pop. Photogr. May 182/3 Studies have shown that despite all the whizbang technology now incorporated.., five to 10 percent of the pictures taken come out severely underexposed.

1999 Times 1 Apr. 34/1 When faced with the latest whiz-bang derivative product from the company's banker, the finance director is well advised to be guided by the old adage, ‘If you don't understand how it works, then don't do it’.

2001 Successful Farming Sept. 21/1 Grazing-based systems don't buy enough whiz-bang technology to get much interest from agribusiness.

2013 Independent (Nexis) 4 Aug. Last week was a big week for BT, what with it launching its whizzbang sports tellybox service.