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Bang

noun

1.

A vigorous blow. Synonyms: bash, belt, knock, smash. "He took a bash right in his face" , "He got a bang on the head"

2.

A sudden very loud noise. Synonyms: bam, blast, clap, eruption.

3.

A border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead. Synonym: fringe.

4.

The swift release of a store of affective force. Synonyms: boot, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill. "What a boot!" , "He got a quick rush from injecting heroin" , "He does it for kicks"

5.

A conspicuous success. Synonyms: hit, smash, smasher, strike. "That new Broadway show is a real smasher" , "The party went with a bang"

verb

(past & past part. banged; pres. part. banging)

1.

Strike violently. Synonym: slam.

2.

To produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound.

3.

Close violently. Synonym: slam.

4.

Move noisily. "The old man banged around the house"

5.

Have sexual intercourse with. Synonyms: be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with. "Adam knew Eve" , "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

6.

Leap, jerk, bang. Synonym: spang.

adverb

1.

Directly. Synonyms: bolt, slap, slapdash, smack. "Ran slap into her"

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"Bang" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Steps for the usual bowl along the Avenue, so as to get some Fresh Smoke, she beheld a rubber-tired Victoria, drawn by two expensive Bang-Tails in jingly Harness and surmounted by important ...

— Ade's Fables • George Ade

... only peace, argued constantly for a creed of illimitable ferocity. She was invulnerable on these questions, because eventually she overrode all opponents with a sniff. This sniff was an active force. It was to her antagonists like a bang over the head, and none was known to recover from this expression of exalted contempt. It left them windless and conquered. They never again came forward as candidates for suppression. And Martha walked her kitchen with a stern brow, ...

— The Monster and Other Stories - The Monster; The Blue Hotel; His New Mittens • Stephen Crane

... git half out after all, as if the speaker was afraid to let 'em go, lest he shouldn't git hold of 'em again. There's that there mountain, now. They can't call it Mont Blang, with a good strong out-an'-out bang, like a Briton would do, but they catches hold o' the gee when it's got about as far as the bridge o' the nose, half throttles it and shoves it right back, so that you can scarce hear it at all. An' the best joke is, there ain't no gee in the word ...

— Rivers of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne

... sometimes came determined to make fun of the proceedings, and were seized before they knew of it." Men were "flung from their horses;" "a young fellow, famous for drinking, cursing, and violence, was leaning against a tree looking on, when he was jerked to the ground, slam bang. He swore he would not dance, and he was jerked about until it was a wonder he was not killed. At last he had to dance." "Sometimes they would be jerked about like a cock with his head off, all ...

— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff

... glow of happiness diffused itself over my much-tried spirits. I was so exalted that when a young lady came in for a bottle of bandoline I gave her Spaulding's prepared glue instead; and the next time I met that young lady she wore a bang—she had used the new-fangled bandoline, and the only way to get the stuff out of her hair was to cut ...

— The Blunders of a Bashful Man • Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

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