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Bang   /bæŋ/   Listen
noun
Bang  n.  
1.
A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. "Many a stiff thwack, many a bang."
2.
The loud sound produced by a sudden concussion or explosion.
3.
A surge of pleasure; a thrill; usually used in the phrase get a bang out of; as, I always get a bang out of watching an ice skater do a quadruple jump. (informal)
Synonyms: kick (5).
4.
(Printing & Computers) An exclamation point; used in verbal descriptions of text, in printing and in computer technology; as, his email address is tom bang stanford dot edu (i.e. tom!stanford.edu). (slang)
5.
An instance of sexual intercourse; a fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene. (vulgar slang)



Bang  n.  The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn; usually used in the plural; as, her bangs came down almost to her eyes. "His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang."



Bangue, Bang  n.  See Bhang.



verb
Bang  v. t.  (past & past part. banged; pres. part. banging)  
1.
To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. "The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks."
2.
To beat or thump, or to cause (something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.
3.
To have sexual intercourse with; to fuck; usually used with the male as a subject. Considered vulgar or obscene. (vulgar slang)



Bang  v. t.  To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). "His hair banged even with his eyebrows."



Bang  v. i.  
1.
To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.
2.
To have sexual intercourse; to fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene. (vulgar slang)






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"Bang" Quotes from Famous Books



... bang, bang all the way to Canso, with Clancy swearing at Withrow and the Flamingo and Dave Warner and the girl in the case—one after the other and sometimes all together. "Blast Withrow and that crazy fool Dave Warner, too. And ...
— The Seiners • James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

... looked in the direction indicated. The door stood half open, and the silhouette of a young woman in a large hat put the upper panels in shadow. The captain rose and, with a vigorous thrust of his foot, closed the door with a bang. ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

... "Bang! Bang! Clatter! Smash! Crash!" went the cakes of ice as they came up the incline, and slid down the long wooden chutes, where the men hooked them off and piled them up. Pile after pile was made of the ice, until it was stacked up like an ice berg, ...
— Daddy Takes Us Skating • Howard R. Garis

... is how the box moved about, just like some boy or girl, with a handkerchief tied over his or her eyes, trying to move about to catch someone, and yet trying not to bang into a ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While • Laura Lee Hope

... well," Bishop spluttered, wrestling with an obstructing piece of ice until it was wrenched from his upper lip and slammed stoveward with a bang. ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London


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