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noun

Bang n.

A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. "Many a stiff thwack, many a bang."

The loud sound produced by a sudden concussion or explosion.

A surge of pleasure; a thrill; usually used in the phrase get a bang out of; as, I always get a bang out of watching an ice skater do a quadruple jump. (informal)

Synonyms: kick (5).

(Printing & Computers) An exclamation point; used in verbal descriptions of text, in printing and in computer technology; as, his email address is tom bang stanford dot edu (i.e. tom!stanford.edu). (slang)

An instance of sexual intercourse; a fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene. (vulgar slang)

Bang n. The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn; usually used in the plural; as, her bangs came down almost to her eyes. "His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang."

Bangue, Bang n. See Bhang.

verb

Bang v. t. (past & past part. banged; pres. part. banging)

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. "The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks."

To beat or thump, or to cause (something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

To have sexual intercourse with; to fuck; usually used with the male as a subject. Considered vulgar or obscene. (vulgar slang)

Bang v. t. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). "His hair banged even with his eyebrows."

Bang v. i.

To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.

To have sexual intercourse; to fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene. (vulgar slang)

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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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