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A serious or devastating setback
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An evil spell; a curse or hex
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The vibrato system of an electric guitar, or just its lever (whammy bar)
Examples of whammy in a Sentence
The slight reverb and the occasionally whammy on the chord really accentuate what is a very simple and effective melody.
As a nanny 's wages rise, so the double whammy tax effect gets worse.
Complete with a strum bar, whammy bar, and five different colored buttons on the neck.The strum bar is a little plastic flipper that clicks up or down, simulating the strumming motion you would make when plucking strings.
They suffer the double whammy of being denigrated at all social levels and at the same time taxed heavily.
Are all the payments set against UK IHT or is the Estate gong to get a double whammy?
I had a double whammy with this last bleed.
With opportunistic good taste, one of the mistresses of the art has scored a triple whammy.
The Internet is something of a triple whammy to the call center world.
Private housing will receive a quadruple whammy of three tax increases and higher interest rates that should flatten the market outside the hotspots.
To his surprise and delight, the same compounds that block pumps also bind these transcriptional regulators -- a potential double whammy.
This antitrust double whammy is likely to have profound implications for business operations across the continent.
Talking of a 'double whammy ', SCC has just completed the National Gritting Trials on their home turf during April.
The truth is that people living in remote areas such as the highlands and islands are victims of a triple whammy.
Almost all of the video games noises were done with a guitar pick or whammy bar, attached or detached from the guitar.
Not only that, but he also confessed that he couldn't get Molly out of his head…double whammy.
Make sure you have your whammy bar ready to play some of these excellent dive bomb licks.
A whammy bar, or a tremolo, is a bar that hangs off the guitar's bridge that a player can depress or pull up on the change the pitch of the note being played.
This can be a lot of fun, but it can also throw your guitar out of tune, so be sure to use your whammy bar sparingly.
On the guitar, learn to focus on hitting the notes rather than hitting the whammy bar.
Getting longer streak combos is more important than the extra points afforded by the whammy bar.
Use the whammy bar to boost up your star power bar during those long notes.
On the body is a strum bar and a whammy bar.
This is where you hold the fret button for an extended period, optionally hitting the whammy bar for bonus points.
And then there's the whammy bar, which acts exactly like a whammy bar should.
Either type of exercise is good, but combining them makes for a nice double whammy.
For a double whammy, the Strangler's publishers also took the band to court, claiming they ripped off their 'No More Heroes' in Elastica's new single 'Waking Up'.
A semi-acoustic and a whammy pedal work together to create the driving beat of this song that has been used commercially ad nauseum.
It's the double whammy of ' Oh My God ' and ' I Predict A Riot ' which sends things really loopy tho.
Carol Latter explained the double whammy effect on these clients due to the squeeze on the budget of BCC Adult Social Care.
Other Bells and Whistles - Electric guitars often have other tricks than acoustic guitars have like whammy bars.
But some to try are Chalone near the Pinnacles Monument east of Salinas Valley, Talbott in Carmel Valley for beautiful Chardonnays and Pinot, and Bernardus which doubles as a double whammy rejuvenating winery and spa resort.