Usually means: Sudden impact; expressive of surprise.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. whammo: Merriam-Webster
  2. whammo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whammo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. whammo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Whammo, whammo: Wordnik
  6. whammo: Wiktionary
  7. whammo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. whammo: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. whammo: Dictionary.com
  10. whammo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. whammo: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. whammo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. whammo: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (informal) An action-packed scene in a film, etc.

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whizz-bangery, wham, actionfest, whammie, rampage, blam, rapid, boom-boom, whizbangery, bomb, more...
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whizz-bangery, wham, actionfest, whammie, rampage, blam, rapid, boom-boom, whizbangery, bomb, more...



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