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Bang

//bæŋ// adv, intj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Right, directly.

    "The passenger door was bang against the garage wall."

  2. 2
    Precisely.

    "He arrived bang on time."

  3. 3
    With a sudden impact.

    "Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door."

Adverb
  1. 1
    directly wordnet
Intj
  1. 1
    A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.

    "He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, “Bang!”"

Noun
  1. 1
    A sudden percussive noise.

    "When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang."

  2. 2
    Archaic spelling of bhang. alt-of, archaic, uncountable
  3. 3
    a conspicuous success wordnet
  4. 4
    A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
  5. 5
    a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead wordnet
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  1. 6
    An explosion.
  2. 7
    a sudden very loud noise wordnet
  3. 8
    Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across. US, archaic

    "Tiffany has long hair and bangs."

  4. 9
    a vigorous blow wordnet
  5. 10
    The symbol !, known as an exclamation point. US

    "An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path."

  6. 11
    the swift release of a store of affective force wordnet
  7. 12
    A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
  8. 13
    An act of sexual intercourse. slang, vulgar
  9. 14
    An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
  10. 15
    An explosive product. slang

    "Load the bang into the hole."

  11. 16
    An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug). slang

    "Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart."

  12. 17
    An abrupt left turn. US, slang
  13. 18
    strong smell (of) Ireland, colloquial, slang

    "There was a bang of onions off his breath."

  14. 19
    A thrill. slang

    "I hate the movies like poison, but I get a bang imitating them."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something. intransitive

    "The fireworks banged away all through the night."

  2. 2
    leap, jerk, bang wordnet
  3. 3
    To hit hard. ambitransitive

    "He banged the door shut."

  4. 4
    strike violently wordnet
  5. 5
    To engage in sexual intercourse. ambitransitive, slang, vulgar

    "We can hear the couple banging upstairs."

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  1. 6
    close violently wordnet
  2. 7
    To hammer or to hit anything hard.

    "Hold the picture while I bang in this nail."

  3. 8
    have sexual intercourse with wordnet
  4. 9
    To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair). transitive

    "His hair banged even with his eyebrows."

  5. 10
    move noisily wordnet
  6. 11
    To inject intravenously. slang, transitive

    "Do you smoke meth? No, I bang it."

  7. 12
    to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound wordnet
  8. 13
    To depress the prices in (a market). dated, transitive

    "This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]"

  9. 14
    To excel or surpass. obsolete, slang, transitive
  10. 15
    To be excellent; to be banging intransitive, slang, stative

    "This song bangs!"

  11. 16
    To fail, especially an exam; to flunk. Nigeria, slang
  12. 17
    To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey. New-England, intransitive, slang

    "Bang a right at the next stoplight."

  13. 18
    To gangbang; to participate in street gang criminal activity. US, slang

    "You know I still bang."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”). In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off. In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”). In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off. In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”). In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off. In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.

Etymology 4

From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”). In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off. In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.

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