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spang

  [spang] ,
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–adverb Informal.
directly, exactly: The bullet landed spang on target.
Origin:
1835–45, Americanism; orig. uncert.
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spang   (spāng)   
adv.   Informal
Precisely; squarely: fell spang into the middle of the puddle.

[Probably from dialectal spang, to leap, jerk, bang, probably of imitative origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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