shazam

Apparently coined by American comic book writer Bill Parker in February 1940,[1][2] from the first letters of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury.

• IPA^(key): /ʃəˈzæm/
• Rhymes: -æm

shazam

1. Used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed.
   • 2008, Tom Bissinger, Da Capo:Selected Writings 1967-2004: Selected Writings 1967-2004, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 91:

     My parents lived in the Last Naïf Age: the last ‘good war’, atoms for peace, and parental philosophy that said children should do and say exactly what we do and say, and Shazam! You'll be us.

   • 2009, K. L. Denman, Me, Myself and Ike, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 185:

     So I brought you down the trail on the sled, put you in my car and, shazam, here we are.

shazam (third-person singular simple present shazams, present participle shazamming, simple past and past participle shazammed)

1. (neologism, uncommon, transitive) To determine the artist or the name of a song using the Shazam application.

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