whizbangery

English

Alternative forms

• whizzbangery

Etymology

whizbang +‎ -ery

Noun

whizbangery (uncountable)

1. A device or effect that is startling or amazing.
   • 1985, William A. Henry, Visions of America: how we saw the 1984 election:

     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.

   • 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.

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

     ... 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 ...

   • 2014, John Hornor Jacobs, The Shibboleth:

     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.

   • 2018, Washington Post:

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