The word "whammy" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean something that has a very powerful or overwhelming effect. For example: "The double whammy of devastating floods and an economic downturn has made life very difficult for local residents."
Unusually laced with wheat malt, which gives it a thicker mouthfeel and a notably earthy, grainy aspect, this hits you with a triple whammy of big, sweet, juicy caramelised malts; then unsweetened grapefruit, pepper and lemon notes; and finally a lingering bitterness that rolls on and on.
We are being hit by a double whammy: shrinking budgets and organisational instability.
If Tim Montgomerie's pre-speech summary on ConservativeHome is correct – it often is – then Cameron is going further with a triple whammy against automatic access to benefits and to social housing, as well as Cleggish-fines for employers who avert their gaze: not easily done because both employer and worker stand to benefit from collusion.
"Shrinking budgets and an increase in pupil numbers could be a difficult double whammy and needs careful negotiation with the Treasury ahead of the next spending review".
Of course, summer exams at school and university can also coincide with hay fever season – a double whammy for some women.
This double whammy will increase their electoral importance in 2015 and is expected to feature even more prominently in future elections.
The Thistle manager, Alan Archibald, watched his side hold out before being hit by a double-whammy just before the interval when they lost a player and a goal.
After last year's politically-inflected double-whammy of Erin Brockovich and Traffic, Soderbergh was in a position to make almost anything he wished, and it's weirdly encouraging that he chose as his follow-up a film he says is "about nothing at all".
Labour may still be reeling from the Tory double-whammy it suffered in the 1992 election: a pair of boxing gloves marked "more taxes" and "higher prices".
Big institutions, however, are increasingly inclined to invest directly, saving the double-whammy in fees which helps to drag down net performance.
Ford, which had mortgaged itself to the hilt three years earlier, only narrowly escaped the same fate.The double-whammy of petrol at $4 a gallon in the summer of 2008 rapidly followed by the freezing of the credit markets after the Lehman Brothers bust had finally brought America's native car industry to its knees.
