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Definition of whizzer
: one that whizzes; especially : a centrifugal machine for drying something (such as grain, sugar, or nitrated cotton)
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Cain got a glove up and deflected Carlos Gonzalez’s whizzer at his ear, and shortstop Kelby Tomlinson picked up the carom for a forceout that stranded the bases loaded in the third.
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1851
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