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whizo; whizzo; wizzo
noun
in the US military, a weapons system operator or officer US, 1993
bFrom a vocalisation of the abbreviation WSO.- “It gives the whizo”—weapons system officer—“a better look-angle into the target and a little more energy on the bomb.” — New York Times, 28 June 1991
- The FLIR is mostly the wizzo’s (slang for the Weapons System Officer, or WSO, the back-seater who operates the radar and other equipment while the pilot flies the airplane) toy[.] — Hans Halberstadt, US Marine Corps, 1993
- — John W. Mussell, The Token Book of Militarisms, 1995
- Larry Moore was Rick’s wizzo (weapons system operator) on many occasions. — Evelyn Husband and Donna VanLiere, High Calling, p. 31, 2003
- — Seattle Times, p. A9, 12 April 1998: “Grunts, squids not grunting from the same dictionary”
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