bang
Meanings
- A sudden percussive noise.
- A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
- An explosion.
- Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
- The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
- A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
- An explosive product.
- An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
- An abrupt left turn.
- strong smell (of)
- To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
- To hit hard.
- To engage in sexual intercourse.
- To hammer or to hit anything hard.
- To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
- To inject intravenously.
- To depress the prices in (a market).
- To excel or surpass.
- To be excellent; to be banging
- To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
- To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
- To gangbang; to participate in street gang criminal activity.
- Right, directly.
- Precisely.
- With a sudden impact.
- A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.
- Archaic spelling of bhang.
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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”). In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off. In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.