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noun

Bang n.

A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. "Many a stiff thwack, many a bang."

The loud sound produced by a sudden concussion or explosion.

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).

(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)

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)

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. "The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks."

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.

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.

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.

To have sexual intercourse; to fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene. (vulgar slang)

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"Bang" Quotes from Famous Books

... turned to take the chairs into the house. Lifting the big rocker high in front of her, she stepped over the threshold and started to shuffle her way along to the candle shelf. The chair came down in the middle of the floor with a sudden bang, as she caught her foot in John Jay's pillow and sprawled ...

— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston

... on Peter, did not answer. Instead, he sprang up, as though struck by a thought of marked interest and bolted out the door. They saw him vanish into the telephone booth across the hall and bang the ...

— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... lines gave way. Then Egmont's horse was shot under him; and for a long time we fought pell-mell, man to man, horse to horse, troop to troop, on the broad, flat, sea-sand. Suddenly, as if from heaven, down came the cannon shot from the mouth of the river, bang, bang, right into the midst of the French. These were English, who, under Admiral Malin, happened to be sailing past from Dunkirk. They did not help us much, 'tis true; they could only approach with their smallest vessels, ...

— Egmont - A Tragedy In Five Acts • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... entrance was evidently startling in the quiet house, for upon the bang of the door there followed the crash of a decanter, dropped upon the floor of the dining-room at the end of the hall; and, after a rumble of indistinct profanity, Roscoe came forth, holding a dripping napkin in ...

— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington

... in the pantry, and placed itself before the fire, whence all the efforts of the people of the house were unable to remove it until it was thoroughly roasted; and that it then flew up the chimney with a tremendous bang. At Baldarroch itself the belief was not quite so extravagant; but the farmer was so convinced that the devil and his imps were alone the cause of all the disturbance, that he travelled a distance of forty miles to an old conjuror, named ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

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