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Bang

noun
1.
A vigorous blow.  Synonyms: bash, belt, knock, smash.  "He took a bash right in his face" , "He got a bang on the head"
2.
A sudden very loud noise.  Synonyms: bam, blast, clap, eruption.
3.
A border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead.  Synonym: fringe.
4.
The swift release of a store of affective force.  Synonyms: boot, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill.  "What a boot!" , "He got a quick rush from injecting heroin" , "He does it for kicks"
5.
A conspicuous success.  Synonyms: hit, smash, smasher, strike.  "That new Broadway show is a real smasher" , "The party went with a 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.
adverb
1.
Directly.  Synonyms: bolt, slap, slapdash, smack.  "Ran slap into her"



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"Bang" Quotes from Famous Books



... work harder than an engineer for their rattlety-bang speed. I had rather sit back and get some pleasure out of riding, as I do behind ...
— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb

... "And you shall christen it, Dottie, with a big Florence flask full of absolute vacuum. 'I christen you "The Skylark." BANG!'" ...
— The Skylark of Space • Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby

... I let slip at 'em, and missed 'em. Says father, says he, "What a blockhead you be, Sam, that's your own fault, they were too far off; you hadn't ought to have fired so soon. At Bunker's hill we let the British come right on till we seed the whites of their eyes, and then we let 'em have it slap bang." Well, I felt kinder grigged at missin' my shot, and I didn't over half like to be scolded too; so, says I, "Yes, father; but recollect you had a mud bank to hide behind, where you were proper safe, and you had a rest for your guns too; but as soon as you seed a little more than the whites ...
— The Clockmaker • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... thing it would be to see the lot by road! I tell you, this little auto's going to be all right—all right. It'd be the best kind of a stunt for a lady from Europe; and if the papers got hold of it, I bet they'd give us a bang-up notice—a photo too, maybe, you could send your friends on ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... on, at any rate as far as Boulogne," she volunteered, without my asking the question; and we got into our car together, she entering her compartment and I mine. I heard her door bang, but I kept mine ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths


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