banging
English
Alternative forms
- bangin' (slang)
Pronunciation
Audio (US): (file) - Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈbæŋ.ɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -æŋɪŋ
Verb
banging
- present participle of bang
- He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time! - Alex Rocco in the movie The Godfather
Noun
banging (countable and uncountable, plural bangings)
- The action of the verb to bang.
- The banging of the hammers could be heard from several streets away.
- Strange bangings in the old house were ascribed to a poltergeist.
Adjective
banging
- (slang) Excellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great.
- Wow, what a banging haircut! It looks terrific!
- (slang) Attractive; sexually appealing.
- (colloquial, dated) Huge; great in size.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)
Translations
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “banging”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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