bang
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: băng
ipa: /bæŋ(ɡ)/
ipa: /baŋ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /bæn/
text: Audio (US)
rhymes: -æŋ
homophone: bhang
Forms: 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: He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, “Bang!”
text: Bang! Away he goes with a mighty bound. Leo has missed him. Bang! right under him again. Now for a shot. I must have one, though he is going like an arrow, and a hundred yards away and more.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: “Just like parade it had been a minute before then stumble, bang, swish! Wiped out!” he said.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 84:
text: Serve him right. Transgression—punishment—bang! Pitiless, pitiless.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 215:
text: We help to kill the bloody bandits. Bang, bang, bang.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 17:
glosses: A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.
Derived terms: word: banger
word: bit banging
word: gangbang
word: bang about
word: bang around
word: bang away
word: bang down the door
word: bang on the door
word: bang one's head against a brick wall
word: bang out
word: bang some heads together
word: bang the door down
word: gang-bang
word: head bang
word: bang like a shithouse door
word: bang like a dunny door
word: bang like a dunny door in a gale
word: bang a uey
word: bang for one's buck
word: bang into
word: bang bang chicken
word: PC bang
word: bang path
word: bang for the buck
word: bang maid
word: bang snap
word: bang stick
word: bang straw
word: bang-straw
word: bang tail
word: bang-tail
word: bang zone
word: bang-up cove
word: big bang
word: Big Bang
word: flash-bang
word: gang bang
word: go out with a bang
word: interrobang
word: sonic bang
word: with a bang
word: bang on
word: bang out of order
word: bang to rights
word: bang up
word: bang-up
word: bang-bang
word: slap bang
word: slap-bang
word: smack bang
word: tap, rack, bang
word: the whole bang shoot
word: whiz-bang
word: whizz-bang
word: whizbang
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word: bangable
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word: bangbus
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word: bang from the buck
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word: bangle
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word: bangless
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word: bang on the drum
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word: bangorrhea
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word: bangsome
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word: bangstick
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word: bangtail
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word: bang the drum for
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word: bangy
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word: bebang
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word: fingerbang
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word: flash-to-bang time
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word: hashbang
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word: headbang
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word: kerbang
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word: shebang
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word: sidebang
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word: slambang
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word: strambang