bang
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Probably derived from, or at least cognate with, Old Norse and Icelandic banga "to pound, hammer,", cognate with Danish banke "to beat," Danish bengel and German Bengel "club", bungen (“‘pulsate’”) (rare) etc. (Verification for this etymology is sought): perhaps of onomatopoeic origin, coinciding with Korean 방아 (banga) "pounding" or milling of grain.
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bang (plural bangs)
- A sudden percussive noise.
- When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.
- A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
- An explosion.
- (US) (especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead. (British: fringe)
- Tiffany has long hair and bangs.
- 1902: She was not much to look at. Her red hair hung in an uncurled bang over her forehead — Barbara Baynton, short story Squeaker's Mate (variously reprinted, including in The Penguin Century of Australian Stories, ed. Carmel Bird, 2000, ISBN 0-670-89233-5)
- (US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
- An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
- (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
- (figuratively) An act of sexual intercourse.
- plural: Brucellosis, a bacterial disease (a corruption of the alternate name "Bang's disease")
- An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
- (slang) An explosive product, in mining
- Load the bang into the hole.
- (slang) An abrupt left turn, in Boston slang; the opposite of this, an abrupt right turn, is a hang
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to bang (third-person singular simple present bangs, present participle banging, simple past and past participle banged)
- To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
- The fireworks banged away all through the night.
- (slang, figuratively) To engage in sexual intercourse.
- It's also my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang. - Tom Cruise in the movie Jerry Maguire
- He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time! - Alex Rocco in the movie The Godfather
- (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
- Hold the picture while I bang in this nail.
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bang
- a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound
- He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, "Bang!"
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- banger
- banging, bangin
- bang for the buck
- bang on
- bang out of order
- bang to rights
- bang up / bang-up
- big bang
- gangbang
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bang, bange (comparative banger, bangere; superlative bangst, bangste)
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bang (comparative banger, superlative am bangsten)
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Old Norse
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bang
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bang (방)
- room
- Note: Used as a suffix in words such as PC방 (Internet café), 노래방 (noraebang, karaoke room), 소주방 (sojubang, drink shop)
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bang
- A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of three tones, bāng, bǎng, or bàng.
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English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
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Onomatopoeic or unknown origin
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bang
