bang has definitions from the fields of zoology,sexuality
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[ verb ] strike violently

Synonyms

slam

Examples

"slam the ball"

Used in print

(Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)

The car lurched along at a snail 's crawl , the left front mudguard banging and scraping against the tire , occasionally scraping against the road itself .

Related terms

hit knock

2
[ verb ] close violently

Synonyms

slam

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 .

Related terms

close slam

3
[ 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

go

4
[ noun ] a vigorous blow

Synonyms

smash bash belt knock

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 .

Related terms

bump slam smash sock belt

5
[ noun ] a sudden very loud noise

Used in print

(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)

That tap had a slight bang ish quality .

Related terms

noise water_hammer blast

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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

hairdo

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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

travel

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[ adverb ] (informal) directly

Synonyms

slapdash smack bolt slap

Examples

"he ran bang into the pole" "ran slap into her"

Related terms

colloquialism

9
[ 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?"

10
[ 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"

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 10675
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[ verb ] leap. jerk, bang (dialectal)

Synonyms

spang

Examples

"Bullets spanged into the trees"

Related terms

hit dialect

13
[ noun ] a conspicuous success

Synonyms

hit smasher strike smash

Examples

"that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career" "that new Broadway show is a real smasher" "the party went with a bang"

Related terms

success sleeper blockbuster

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