slam-bang

Definitions

1. 1

   Noisy, raucous.

   • At a signal from Horko's box there was an all-out, slam-bang, grand salute of the guns and with it a pounding of the deep liquid bass drums.
   • Their arguments weren't pleasant to hear or to watch, but they weren't yet having the all-out, slam-bang quarrels they would have when I was older.
   • Fifteen years of marriage in full would cry out for a slam-bang celebration.
2. 2

   Violent, forceful.

   • "If you had led the rough, tough, slam-bang, every-man-for-himself life I have, you wouldn't be frightened of gorillas...."
   • Temporary Agency begins with a tale of demonic possession and adolescent crushes and ends with a slam-bang, all-out global confrontation between the forces of good and evil.
   • The boy seemed streetwise yet clearly unaware that this was an officer whose slam-bang interrogation methods were a legend.
3. 3

   Impressive, exciting.

   • "I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman."
   • 2004 March 18–24, Jack Harvey (pseudonym), "Once Again, Oscar Is King Of The Rings", in The Onion, available in Embedded in America, →ISBN, page 114, After this slam-bang production, the next is sure to be a huge letdown.
   • An eentsy-weentsy office with a slam-bang T1 connection that she couldn't figure out how to hook up to her slam-bang computer that she couldn't figure out how to plug in.
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   1. 4

      Shot or hit with a noise.

   2. 5

      Noisy activity.

      • From far down the hall came the staccato notes of a new term, the slam-bang of teachers flinging open cabinets, filling trash cans, stapling lists to bulletin boards, dragging desks into optimistic configurations.
      • 1985, Paul Theroux, "Introduction", to, Henry James, What Maisie Knew, Penguin Classics, →ISBN, page 13, But James in describing the slam-bang of her upbringing has given us every reason for her turning out crazy, vengeful or anti-social.
   3. 6

      To beat noisily.

      • 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He was forever slam-banging the microphone stand & twisting the cord around himself.

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