bang
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
drugs
finance
mathematics
medicine
mining
pharmacology
sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: bangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bangue
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: banging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: banged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: banged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: bang
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: bang
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: banged
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: bang
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: bangest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: banged
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: bangedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: bangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bangeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: banged
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: bang
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: banged
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: bang
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: banged
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: bang
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: banging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: banged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bangue
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more bang
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bang
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: bangue
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bangue
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A sudden percussive noise.
pos: noun
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'.
gloss: A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
pos: noun
gloss: An explosion.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
examples: 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
gloss: The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
Incidentally, a useful abbreviation for "Exclamation point" is "Bang."
gloss: A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
pos: noun
gloss: An act of sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
pos: noun
gloss: An explosive product.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Load the bang into the hole.
gloss: An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.
As for myself, I take a bang now and then—I know plenty of croakers—but I really couldn't keep up a habit without a lot of running around and bother.
gloss: An abrupt left turn.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: strong smell (of)
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
colloquial
slang
examples: There was a bang of onions off his breath.
gloss: A thrill.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I hate the movies like poison, but I get a bang imitating them.
"We all know you give great parties, Mr. Lippincott."
"It gives me a bang, even a bigger bang than this," Mr. Lippincott said, indicating his drink and then finishing it.
Yes, he got a bang out of cheating Rollo.
gloss: To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The fireworks banged away all through the night.
Stop banging on the door. I heard you the first time!
My head was banging after drinking all night at the concert.
gloss: To hit hard.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: He banged the door shut.
David and Mary banged into each other.
The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.
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.
gloss: To engage in sexual intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
vulgar
examples: We can hear the couple banging upstairs.
It's also my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
Moe Greene: He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!
gloss: To hammer or to hit anything hard.
pos: verb
examples: Hold the picture while I bang in this nail.
gloss: To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His hair banged even with his eyebrows.
gloss: To inject intravenously.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Do you smoke meth? No, I bang it.
gloss: To depress the prices in (a market).
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: 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 […]
[…] the London "Bears" have promptly banged the market again […]
gloss: To excel or surpass.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
transitive
gloss: To be excellent; to be banging
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
stative
examples: This song bangs!
gloss: To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
pos: verb
tags: Nigeria
slang
gloss: To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
pos: verb
tags: New-England
intransitive
slang
examples: Bang a right at the next stoplight.
gloss: To gangbang; to participate in street gang criminal activity.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
examples: You know I still bang.
gloss: Right, directly.
pos: adv
examples: The passenger door was bang against the garage wall.
After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar.
gloss: Precisely.
pos: adv
examples: He arrived bang on time.
gloss: With a sudden impact.
pos: adv
examples: Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.
gloss: A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.
pos: intj
examples: He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, “Bang!”
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.
“Just like parade it had been a minute before then stumble, bang, swish! Wiped out!” he said.
Serve him right. Transgression—punishment—bang! Pitiless, pitiless.
We help to kill the bloody bandits. Bang, bang, bang.
Synonyms: strike
blow
explosion
bang
blam
boom
boom-boom
clap
crack
kaboom
kerboom
pow
report
Antonyms: hang
humming
murmur
Related words: beep
tap
snap
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