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Slam-bang

adj, adv, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Noisy, raucous. not-comparable, onomatopoeic

    "At a signal from Horko's box there was an all-out, slam-bang, grand salute of the guns and with it a pounding of the deep liquid bass drums."

  2. 2
    Violent, forceful not-comparable

    ""If you had led the rough, tough, slam-bang, every-man-for-himself life I have, you wouldn't be frightened of gorillas....""

  3. 3
    Impressive, exciting. not-comparable

    ""I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.""

Adjective
  1. 1
    violent and sudden and noisy wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Shot or hit with a noise not-comparable

    "19th cent., Robert Montgomery Bird, Nick of the Woods, 1967 Rowman & Littlefield edition, →ISBN, page 48, Well! as soon as I jumped out of his way, bang went his piece, and bang went another, let fly by an Injun;—down went the Major, shot right through the hips, slam-bang."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a violent or sudden or noisy manner wordnet
  2. 2
    with heedless speed wordnet
  3. 3
    in a careless or reckless manner wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Noisy activity. onomatopoeic

    "From far down the hall came the staccato notes of a new term, the slam-bang of teachers flinging open cabinets, filling trash cans, stapling lists to bulletin boards, dragging desks into optimistic configurations."

Verb
  1. 1
    To beat noisily.

    "1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He was forever slam-banging the microphone stand & twisting the cord around himself."

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