bang
Forms
- Plural
- bangs
- present (v1)
- bang
- past (v2)
- banged
- past participle (v3)
- banged
- present participle
- banging
- 3rd person singular
- bangs
Definitions
1.A sudden percussive noise.
- When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.
- A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'.
2.A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
3.An explosion.
4.The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
- An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
- Incidentally, a useful abbreviation for "Exclamation point" is "Bang."
1.To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
- The fireworks banged away all through the night.
- Stop banging on the door. I heard you the first time!
- My head was banging after drinking all night at the concert.
2.To hit hard.
- David and Mary banged into each other.
- He banged the door shut.
- Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
3.To engage in sexual intercourse.(slang)
- We can hear the couple banging upstairs.
- Moe Greene: He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!
- It's also my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
4.To hammer or to hit anything hard.
- Hold the picture while I bang in this nail.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4739
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).