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bang
1[ bang ]
noun
- a loud, sudden, explosive noise, as the discharge of a gun.
- a resounding stroke or blow:
a nasty bang on the head.
- Informal. a sudden movement or show of energy:
He started with a bang.
The bang has gone out of my work.
- Informal. sudden or intense pleasure; thrill; excitement:
a big bang out of seeing movies.
- Slang: Vulgar. an act or instance of sexual intercourse.
- Printing and Computer Slang. an exclamation point.
verb (used with object)
- to strike or beat resoundingly; pound:
to bang a door.
- to hit or bump painfully:
to bang one's ankle on a chair leg.
- to throw or set down roughly; slam:
He banged the plates on the table.
- Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse with.
verb (used without object)
- to strike violently or noisily:
to bang on the door.
- to make a loud, sudden, explosive noise like that of a violent blow:
The guns banged all night.
- Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse.
adverb
- suddenly and loudly; abruptly or violently:
She fell bang against the wall.
He stood bang in the middle of the flower bed.
verb phrase
- to damage:
A passing car banged up our fender.
- to collide with; bump into:
The truck skidded on the ice and banged into a parked car.
bang
2[ bang ]
noun
- Usually bangs. a fringe of hair combed or brushed forward over the forehead.
verb (used with object)
- to cut (the hair) so as to form a fringe over the forehead.
- to dock (the tail of a horse or dog).
bang
3[ bang ]
noun
bang
1/ bæŋ /
noun
- a short loud explosive noise, as of the bursting of a balloon or the report of a gun
- a hard blow or knock, esp a noisy one; thump
he gave the ball a bang
- informal.a startling or sudden effect
he realized with a bang that he was late
- slang.an injection of heroin or other narcotic
- taboo.an act of sexual intercourse
- get a bang out of slang.to experience a thrill or excitement from
- with a bangsuccessfully
the party went with a bang
verb
- to hit or knock, esp with a loud noise; bump
to bang one's head
- to move noisily or clumsily
to bang about the house
- to close (a door, window, etc) or (of a door, etc) be closed noisily; slam
- tr to cause to move by hitting vigorously
he banged the ball over the fence
- to make or cause to make a loud noise, as of an explosion
- tr
- to cause (stock prices) to fall by rapid selling
- to sell rapidly in (a stock market), thus causing prices to fall
- taboo.to have sexual intercourse with
- slang.intr to inject heroin, etc
- bang for one's buck informal.value for money
this option offers more bang for your buck
- bang goes informal.that is the end of
bang goes my job in Wapping
- bang one's head against a brick wallto try to achieve something impossible
adverb
- with a sudden impact or effect
bang went his hopes of winning
the car drove bang into a lamp-post
- precisely
bang in the middle of the road
- bang to rights slang.caught red-handed
- go bangto burst, shut, etc, with a loud noise See also bang up
bang
2/ bæŋ /
noun
- a fringe or section of hair cut straight across the forehead
verb
- to cut (the hair) in such a style
- to dock (the tail of a horse, etc)
bang
3/ bæŋ /
noun
- a variant spelling of bhang
Word History and Origins
Origin of bang1
Word History and Origins
Origin of bang1
Origin of bang2
Idioms and Phrases
- bang off, Chiefly British Slang. immediately; right away.
That hat is absolutely bang on.
- bang to rights, Chiefly British. dead to rights:
They caught us bang to rights, so there was no point pretending we were innocent.
More idioms and phrases containing bang
- beat (bang) one's head against the wall
- get a bang out of
- go over big (with a bang)
- more bang for the buck
Example Sentences
"Then there was a bang as it hit the building and then it passed close to my house and then it fell, and I thought it had dropped in front of the house," she said.
“They don’t look for a big bang right away. They are going to build from the ground up.”
She bangs her shell against the metal divider to get their attention.
The guard would bang on the door and say: "Can you hear that beating? Get ready, you're next."
In February, the Jacaranda new music series, shutting down after two decades of indispensable concerts, went out with a Schoenbergian bang, connecting the composer to Hollywood, Mahler, Coltrane and Boulez.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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