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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

... turned to take the chairs into the house. Lifting the big rocker high in front of her, she stepped over the threshold and started to shuffle her way along to the candle shelf. The chair came down in the middle of the floor with a sudden bang, as she caught her foot in John Jay's pillow and sprawled ...

— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston

... on Peter, did not answer. Instead, he sprang up, as though struck by a thought of marked interest and bolted out the door. They saw him vanish into the telephone booth across the hall and bang the ...

— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... lines gave way. Then Egmont's horse was shot under him; and for a long time we fought pell-mell, man to man, horse to horse, troop to troop, on the broad, flat, sea-sand. Suddenly, as if from heaven, down came the cannon shot from the mouth of the river, bang, bang, right into the midst of the French. These were English, who, under Admiral Malin, happened to be sailing past from Dunkirk. They did not help us much, 'tis true; they could only approach with their smallest vessels, ...

— Egmont - A Tragedy In Five Acts • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... entrance was evidently startling in the quiet house, for upon the bang of the door there followed the crash of a decanter, dropped upon the floor of the dining-room at the end of the hall; and, after a rumble of indistinct profanity, Roscoe came forth, holding a dripping napkin in ...

— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington

... in the pantry, and placed itself before the fire, whence all the efforts of the people of the house were unable to remove it until it was thoroughly roasted; and that it then flew up the chimney with a tremendous bang. At Baldarroch itself the belief was not quite so extravagant; but the farmer was so convinced that the devil and his imps were alone the cause of all the disturbance, that he travelled a distance of forty miles to an old conjuror, named ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

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