bang

/ˈbæŋ/
noun

Meaning

A sudden percussive noise.
To hit hard.
To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
An abrupt left turn.
Right, directly.
An explosion.
Archaic spelling of bhang.
To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
With a sudden impact.
An explosive product.
An act of sexual intercourse.
To gangbang; to participate in street gang criminal activity.
An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
strong smell (of)
Precisely.
An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
A sudden percussive noise.
A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.
A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
To hammer or to hit anything hard.
To engage in sexual intercourse.
To excel or surpass.
A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
A thrill.
To depress the prices in (a market).
To inject intravenously.
To be excellent; to be banging

Examples

When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.
A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'.
Tiffany has long hair and bangs.
his hair cut in front like a young lady's bang
She was not much to look at. Her red hair hung in an uncurled bang over her forehead

Word Forms

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Etymology

From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to stri

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