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Banging

noun

1.

A continuing very loud noise.

2.

The act of subjecting to strong attack. Synonym: battering.

adjective

1.

(used informally) very large. Synonyms: humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping.

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.

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... lights and shadows moving in the windows, and with an instinct of coming trouble in his heart, put Mumu under his arm, ran into his garret, and locked himself in. A few minutes later five men were banging at his door, but feeling the resistance of the bolt, they stopped. Gavrila ran up in a fearful state of mind, and ordered them all to wait there and watch till morning. Then he flew off himself to the maids' quarter, and through an old companion, Liubov Liubimovna, ...

— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev

... laughed in his throat, as fat men do. "And," he cried, sitting upright and banging his heavy fist down on the arm of his chair—"and there are millions in your malgamite works at the Hague—millions. If it were only honest it would be the finest monopoly the world has ever seen—for two years, but no longer. At the ...

— Roden's Corner • Henry Seton Merriman

... lot of partridges got up and there was any amount of banging, though most of them were missed. This made the Red-faced Man angrier than ever. He took off his hat and waved ...

— The Mahatma and the Hare • H. Rider Haggard

... it out in my car," he told Jill wryly. "As civilians, I suppose they haven't any helicopters they can give orders to. But it probably makes sense. If there are some queer creatures around, there's no point in stirring them up with a flying contraption banging around near their landing place. Not before we're ready to take real action. Come along. I've got to get you ...

— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... I heard the wonted sound of the banging of doors. "The doors at grand'ther's," I mused, "had list nailed round their edges; but then he had ...

— The Morgesons • Elizabeth Stoddard

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