bang
has definitions from the fields of zoology,sexuality
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[ verb ] close violently
Synonyms Examples "He slammed the door shut" Used in print (Breni James, Nights of the Kill....)The 7_:_45 bell rang and he could hear the outside_doors bang shut , closing in the assembled day_watch . (Samuel Elkin, "The Ball Player," Nugget, 6: 5...)and Phil banged his locker door shut and spun_around . |
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[ verb ] to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound
Examples : "One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my bed" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)`` One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my bed around midnight in July and I leaped out of sleep and out_of_bed . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a vigorous blow
Examples "the sudden knock floored him" "he took a bash right in his face" "he got a bang on the head" Used in print (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)She could not count the times Herman had rapped on the door , just a_couple_of bangs that shook the whole damned closet and might , someday , break_away the pipe connections from the wall . The two little bangs meant that he was getting impatient to have a crowd of customers waited on and that if he had to he would jerk open the door and drag out , by the opposite door_handle which she would be clutching , whichever-the-hell clerk it was who thought she could waste so_much store time on the pot . |
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[ noun ] a sudden very loud noise
Synonyms Used in print (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)That tap had a slight bang ish quality . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (zoology) a fringe of banged hair (cut short squarely across the forehead)
Used in print (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)She was a living doll and no mistake - the blue-black bang , the wide cheekbones , olive flushed , that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage , and the mouth whose only fault , in the novelist 's carping phrase , was that the lower lip was a_trifle too voluptuous . Related terms |
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[ verb ] move noisily
Examples "The window banged shut" "The old man banged around the house" Used in print (Edwin Booth, Outlaw Town....)As Curt had hoped , the house door banged open . Related terms |
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[ adverb ] (informal) directly
Examples "he ran bang into the pole" "ran slap into her" Related terms |
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[ verb ] (sexuality) have sexual intercourse with
Examples "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm" "Adam knew Eve" (know is archaic) "Were you ever intimate with this man?" |
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[ noun ] the swift release of a store of affective force
Examples "they got a great bang out of it" "what a boot!" "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin" "he does it for kicks" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 10675
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