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plural of fizzle
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(Entry 1 of 2)
1
a falling short of one's goals
- the home team's unexpected fizzle in that last game cost them the championship
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2
something that has failed
- the play was a fizzle, opening and closing the same night
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- corkers,
- crackerjacks
- (also crackajacks),
- dandies,
- jim-dandies,
- phenomena
- (or phenomenons)
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fizzles
verbpresent tense third-person singular of fizzle
Synonyms of fizzles (Entry 2 of 2)
to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\
- oozing gobs of grease, a pair of fatty burgers fizzled on the grill
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