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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

... room (the drawback of it was that it looked bang out on to the Cathedral Tower and was fairly raked by the chimes), with the Cathedral Tower before my eyes and the Cathedral chimes in my ears, and Canon Thesiger's beautiful voice and Mrs. Thesiger's beautiful face and the beautiful manners of both of them in my memory, it ...

— The Belfry • May Sinclair

... had not knocked. One o'clock struck; he had paced the street, but had never gone out of sight of the curate's door. It was nearly two, and Mailing was not far from the High Street end of the thoroughfare when he heard a door bang. He turned sharply. A heavy uncertain footstep rang on the pavement. Out of the darkness emerged a tall figure with bowed head. As it moved slowly forward once or twice it swayed, and a wavering arm ...

— The Dweller on the Threshold • Robert Smythe Hichens

... through the house and reached the kitchen door. At the sound of her hand upon the knob there was a wild scramble and a bang, and then Sallie sitting there alone when Anna came into the room, but, alas, the butcher boy forgot his overcoat in ...

— Three Lives - Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena • Gertrude Stein

... way, in climbing, Miss Cornish caught her high heel in the plush with which the seat is upholstered. The goods is frayed and old. The chair tipped, and they both came to the floor with a bang. Just as I sprang to catch her, something bright and round rolled out of the chair toward me and dropped right at ...

— Flip's "Islands of Providence" • Annie Fellows Johnston

... with vexation at the thought of not seeing him again—and after she had brought her mind to forgive him, too! She wrote blindly, she knew not what, whether it was accusation or entreaty, and sealed the envelope with a bang of her tiny fist—and even then he did not awaken. Lucy wrote carefully, wrestling to turn the implacable one from his purpose and yet feeling that he would have his will. She sealed her note and put ...

— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge

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