bang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: băng
ipa: /bæŋ(ɡ)/
ipa: /baŋ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /bæn/
text: Audio (US)
rhymes: -æŋ
homophone: bhang
Forms: form: bangs
form: banging
form: banged
form: banged
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: bang
form: bang
form: banged
form: bang
form: bangest
form: banged
form: bangedst
form: bangs
form: bangeth
form: banged
form: bang
form: banged
form: bang
form: banged
form: bang
form: -
form: banging
form: banged
form: bangue
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 strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).
In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off.
In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.
Senses: examples: text: The fireworks banged away all through the night.
text: Stop banging on the door. I heard you the first time!
text: My head was banging after drinking all night at the concert.
glosses: To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
examples: text: He banged the door shut.
text: David and Mary banged into each other.
text: The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: To hit hard.
examples: text: We can hear the couple banging upstairs.
text: It's also my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
ref: 1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire, spoken by Bob Sugar (Jay Mohr), Culver City, Calif.: TriStar Pictures; distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Video, published 1997, →ISBN:
text: Moe Greene: He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!
ref: 1972, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather:
synonyms: word: nail
word: do it
word: have sex
word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To engage in sexual intercourse.
examples: text: Hold the picture while I bang in this nail.
glosses: To hammer or to hit anything hard.
raw_tags: with "in"
examples: text: His hair banged even with his eyebrows.
ref: c. 1883, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Becomin a Zuni:
glosses: To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
examples: text: Do you smoke meth? No, I bang it.
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: To inject intravenously.
examples: text: This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]
ref: 1821, Bank of England, The Bank - The Stock Exchange - The Bankers ..., page 64:
text: […] the London "Bears" have promptly banged the market again […]
ref: 1902, Truth, volume 50, page 1138:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To depress the prices in (a market).
glosses: To excel or surpass.
examples: text: This song bangs!
synonyms: word: eat
word: rule
word: rock
word: slap
word: bang
word: devour
word: eat
word: eat and leave no crumbs
word: excel
word: go hard
word: kick
word: kick ass
word: rock
word: rule
word: shine
word: slap
word: slay
glosses: To be excellent; to be banging
glosses: To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
examples: text: Bang a right at the next stoplight.
glosses: To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
examples: text: You know I still bang.
glosses: To gangbang; to participate in street gang criminal activity.