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Whang   /wæŋ/  /hwæŋ/   Listen
noun
Whang  n.  A leather thong. (Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.)


Whang  n.  
1.
A blow; whack. (Dial. or Colloq.)
2.
A large piece or slice; chunk. (Scot. & Dial. Eng.)
3.
Formerly, a house-cleaning party. (Local, U. S.)


verb
Whang  v. t.  
1.
To beat; thrash; bang; also, to throw, hurl, or fling about, violently. (Scot. & Dial. Eng.)
2.
To slice, esp. in large pieces; to chop. (Scot.)





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"Whang" Quotes from Famous Books



... what evil spirit pursues you that you cannot pass your examination for the second degree? My noble-minded but ambitious boy, why were you not content with an agricultural or even a manufacturing career and happiness? By aspiring to a literary degree, you have placed a barrier wider than the Whang ...
— The Wallet of Kai Lung • Ernest Bramah
... yelled to Bodie to to whang out a double. Turtelot said that Bodie couldn't do it. Scanlon said "Oh, is that so?" Turtelot said "Yes, that's so and whad' yer know about that?" Bodie whanged out a double and Scanlon's collar came undone and he lost his derby. Stevens announced that this ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley
... the amateurs. The last of the professional turns—the Grand March of the Happy Huzzard—had been completed; the last wrinkle and darn of their blue silkolene cotton tights had vanished from the stage. The man in the orchestra who played the kettle-drum, cymbals, triangle, sandpaper, whang-doodle, hoof-beats, and catcalls, and fired the pistol shots, had wiped his brow. The illegal holiday ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry
... tried to sidestep him. Made me weak inside for a minute because I thought he was going to take water. Then he got riled a bit and then—whang! It was all over. Not a body shot. No, boys, nothing clumsy and amateurish like that, because a man may live to empty his gun at you after he's been shot through the body. This young Hollis, pals, just ups and drills Larrimer ...
— Black Jack • Max Brand
... produce. There is a note of barbarism in the brassy jar and clamor of the instruments, enhanced by the bewildering ambition of each player to force through his piece the most noise and jangle, which is not always covered and subdued into a harmonious whole by the whang of the bass drum. ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner


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