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bang

1  [bang]
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–noun
1. a loud, sudden, explosive noise, as the discharge of a gun.
2. a resounding stroke or blow: a nasty bang on the head.
3. Informal. a sudden movement or show of energy: He started with a bang.
4. energy; vitality; spirit: The bang has gone out of my work.
5. Informal. sudden or intense pleasure; thrill; excitement: a big bang out of seeing movies.
6. Slang: Vulgar. sexual intercourse.
7. Printing and Computer Slang. an exclamation point.
–verb (used with object)
8. to strike or beat resoundingly; pound: to bang a door.
9. to hit or bump painfully: to bang one's ankle on a chair leg.
10. to throw or set down roughly; slam: He banged the plates on the table.
11. Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse with.
–verb (used without object)
12. to strike violently or noisily: to bang on the door.
13. to make a loud, sudden, explosive noise like that of a violent blow: The guns banged all night.
14. Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse.
–adverb
15. suddenly and loudly; abruptly or violently: She fell bang against the wall.
16. directly; precisely; right: He stood bang in the middle of the flower bed.
—Verb phrases
17. bang into, to collide with; bump into: The truck skidded on the ice and banged into a parked car.
18. bang up, to damage: A passing car banged up our fender.
—Idioms
19. bang off, Chiefly British Slang. immediately; right away.
20. bang on, Chiefly British Slang. terrific; marvelous; just right: That hat is absolutely bang on.
Origin:
1540–50; 1930–35 for def. 5; cf. ON banga to beat, hammer, LG bangen to strike, beat, G dial. banken; perh. orig. imit.

Synonyms:
2. smack, clout, box, wallop, sock, bash, cuff.

bang

2  [bang]
–noun
1. Often, bangs. a fringe of hair combed or brushed forward over the forehead.
–verb (used with object)
2. to cut (the hair) so as to form a fringe over the forehead.
3. to dock (the tail of a horse or dog).
Origin:
1860–65, Americanism; short for bangtail

bang

3  [bang]
–noun
bhang.

bhang

  [bang]
–noun
1. a mild preparation of marijuana made from young leaves and stems of the Indian hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, drunk with milk or water as a fermented brew or smoked for its hallucinogenic effects.
2. a water pipe.
Also, bang.

Origin:
1555–65; < Hindi bhāng < Skt bhangā hemp
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bang 1   (bāng)   
n.  
  1. A sudden loud noise, as of an explosion.
  2. A sudden loud blow or bump.
  3. Informal A sudden burst of action: The campaign started off with a bang.
  4. Slang A sense of excitement; a thrill: We got a bang out of watching the old movies.
v.   banged, bang·ing, bangs

v.   tr.
  1. To strike heavily and often repeatedly; bump.
  2. To close suddenly and loudly; slam.
  3. To handle noisily or violently: banged the pots in the kitchen.
  4. Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.
v.   intr.
  1. To make a sudden loud, explosive noise.
  2. To crash noisily against or into something: My elbow banged against the door.
adv.  
  1. Exactly; precisely: The arrow hit bang on the target.
  2. Suddenly; abruptly: cut the conversation bang off.
  3. To speak or ask questions in a rapid, aggressive manner: reporters banging away at the official during the press conference.
  4. To work diligently and often at length: banged away at the project until it was finished.
Phrasal Verb(s):
bang away
  1. To speak or ask questions in a rapid, aggressive manner: reporters banging away at the official during the press conference.
  2. To work diligently and often at length: banged away at the project until it was finished.
bang upTo damage extensively: banged up the car.

Idiom(s):
bang for the/one's buckValue returned for investment or effort.

[Probably from Old Norse bang, a hammering.]
bang 2   (bāng)   
n.  A fringe of hair cut short and straight across the forehead. Often used in the plural.
tr.v.   banged, bang·ing, bangs
To cut (hair) in bangs.

[From bang1.]
bang 3   (bāng)   
n.  Variant of bhang.
bhang also bang   (bāng, bäng)   
n.  A preparation from the leaves and seed capsules of the cannabis plant, smoked, chewed, eaten, or infused and drunk to obtain mild euphoria.

[Ultimately from Sanskrit bhaṅgā.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Bang

Bang\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banged; p. pr. & vb. n. Banging.] [Icel. banga to hammer; akin to Dan. banke to beat, Sw. b[*a]ngas to be impetuous, G. bengel club, clapper of a bell.]

1. To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks. --Shak.

2. To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

Bang

Bang\, v. i. To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.

Bang

Bang\, n. 1. A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.

Many a stiff thwack, many a bang. --Hudibras.

2. The sound produced by a sudden concussion.

Bang

Bang\, v. t. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).

His hair banged even with his eyebrows. --The Century Mag.

Bang

Bang\, n. The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.

His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang. --W. D. Howells.

Bang

Bang\, Bangue \Bangue\, n. See Bhang.
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Language Translation for : bang
Spanish: portazo, golpe estrepitoso,
German: der Knall,
Japanese: ばたんという音
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bang


1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a bang path in spoken hackish. In elder days this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring excl or shriek; but the spread of Unix has carried `bang' with it (esp. via the term bang path) and it is now certainly the most common spoken name for `!'. Note that it is used exclusively for non-emphatic written `!'; one would not say "Congratulations bang" (except possibly for humorous purposes), but if one wanted to specify the exact characters `foo!' one would speak "Eff oh oh bang". See shriek, ASCII.
2. interj. An exclamation signifying roughly "I have achieved enlightenment!", or "The dynamite has cleared out my brain!" Often used to acknowledge that one has perpetrated a thinko immediately after one has been called on it.
Jargon File 4.2.0
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bang 
c.1550, "to strike hard with a loud blow," from O.N. banga "to pound, hammer" of echoic origin. Slang meaning "have sexual intercourse with" first recorded 1937. Bangs of hair first recorded 1878, Amer.Eng., though 1870 of horses (bang-tail), perhaps from notion of abruptness (cf. bang off "immediately, without delay, 1886; bang-up "excellent, first-rate," 1820, probably shortened from phrase bang up to the mark). Big bang in astrophysics first recorded 1950. Banger British slang for "a sausage" is first recorded 1919, perhaps from sense of "a bludgeon," though this is only recorded in U.S.
"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper"
[T.S. Eliot, "Hollow Men," 1925]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: bang
variant of BHANG
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Bang (bāng, bäng), Bernhard Lauritz Frederik. 1848-1932.

Danish veterinarian who discovered Brucella abortus, the agent of brucellosis in cattle and of undulant fever in humans.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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bang
1. A common spoken name for "!" (ASCII 33), especially when used in pronouncing a bang path in spoken hackish. In elder days this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring excl or shriek; but the spread of Unix has carried "bang" with it (especially via the term bang path) and it is now certainly the most common spoken name for "!". Note that it is used exclusively for non-emphatic written "!"; one would not say "Congratulations bang" (except possibly for humorous purposes), but if one wanted to specify the exact characters "foo!" one would speak "Eff oh oh bang".
See pling, shriek, ASCII.
2. An exclamation signifying roughly "I have achieved enlightenment!", or "The dynamite has cleared out my brain!" Often used to acknowledge that one has perpetrated a thinko immediately after one has been called on it.
[The Jargon File]
(1995-01-31)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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bang

In addition to the idioms beginning with bang, also see beat (bang) one's head against the wall; get a bang out of; go over big (with a bang); more bang for the buck.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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