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Slam-bang   /slæm-bæŋ/   Listen
Slam-bang

adjective
1.
Violent and sudden and noisy.
adverb
1.
In a careless or reckless manner.  Synonym: slapdash.
2.
With heedless speed.
3.
In a violent or sudden or noisy manner.  Synonym: slap-bang.





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"Slam-bang" Quotes from Famous Books



... reminiscence. "We met last year in a corridor of the law school, I was making a wild rush down and he was making an equally wild rush up. Result, we collided. Just like that," Elfreda brought her hands smartly together to illustrate the force of that momentous collision. "I wasn't overcome with joy at this slam-bang introduction. I had seen him often from afar and never admired him. He was at least three inches shorter than yours truly, had a snub nose and freckles. All of which was ...
— Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer • Jessie Graham Flower
... slam-bang of trains and the metallic howls of surface cars that herded and volplaned about them, the fat lady, now apparently gone mad, was gesticulating insanely. Yet she was but indicating, or trying to indicate, the relative refuge of a side street ...
— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus
... his way, for I war mad at being called a damned big rascal, especially as I war doing my best, and covering him from mischief besides. 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. And so said I, 'Major,'—for I warn't well over my passion,—'if you'd 'a' taken things easy, I'd 'a' a stopped that slug for you.' And so says he, 'Bang away you big fool, and don't stand talking.' And so he swounded away; and that made me vicious, too, and I killed two of the red niggurs, ...
— Nick of the Woods • Robert M. Bird


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