bang

noun

/ˈbæŋ//ˈbeɪ̯ŋ/CA

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.

derived from *bʰen-✻ — “to beat, hit, injure”
derived from *bangōną✻ — “to beat, pound”
derived from banga — “to pound, hammer”
derived from *bangian✻
inherited from *bangen✻

Definitions

1
A sudden percussive noise.
- When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.
- A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'.
A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
An explosion.
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1. 4
  Synonym of bangs
  Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
  - 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
2. 5
  The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
  - An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
  - Incidentally, a useful abbreviation for "Exclamation point" is "Bang."
3. A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
4. An act of sexual intercourse.
5. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
6. 9
  An explosive product.
  - Load the bang into the hole.
7. 10
  An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
  - 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.
8. An abrupt left turn.
9. 12
  strong smell (of)
  - There was a bang of onions off his breath.
10. 13
  A thrill.
  - 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.
11. 14
  To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting…
  To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
  - 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.
12. 15
  To hit hard.
  - He banged the door shut.
  - David and Mary banged into each other.
  - The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.
13. 16
  To engage in sexual intercourse.
  - 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!
14. 17
  To hammer or to hit anything hard.
  - Hold the picture while I bang in this nail.
15. 18
  To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock
  To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
  - His hair banged even with his eyebrows.
16. 19
  To inject intravenously.
  - Do you smoke meth? No, I bang it.
17. 20
  To depress the prices in (a market).
  - […] the London "Bears" have promptly banged the market again […]
18. To excel or surpass.
19. 22
  To be excellent
  To be excellent; to be banging
  - This song bangs!
20. To fail, especially an exam
  To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
21. 24
  To make a turn in a vehicle
  To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
  - Bang a right at the next stoplight.
22. 25
  To gangbang
  To gangbang; to participate in street gang criminal activity.
  - You know I still bang.
23. 26
  Right, directly.
  - 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.
24. 27
  Precisely.
  - He arrived bang on time.
25. 28
  With a sudden impact.
  - Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.
26. 29
  A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.
  - 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.
27. Archaic spelling of bhang.

The neighborhood

synonymstrike
synonymblow
synonymexplosion
synonymbang
synonymblam
synonymboom
synonymboom-boom
synonymclap
synonymcrack
synonymkaboom
synonymkerboom
synonympow
antonymhangantonym(s) of “abrupt left turn”
antonymhumming
antonymmurmur
neighborbeep
neighbortap
neighborsnap
neighborsound
neighborchug
neighborputt
neighborthunderclap

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bang. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA