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Word: whammo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...stickler for background than for plot. Because some of his finest locales are marred by modern improvements, he has assembled some 500 masking pieces: "You slap a proclamation over a Coca-Cola sign, cover light poles with trees, mask power lines with branches, introduce a coach-and-four and-whammo- you got a 17th century pastorale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Slanted Fact | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...Sure, the boys say, 'What's the use? I'd just get started and whammo, I'm gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: THE YOUNGER GENERATION | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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