Direct Cross-Language Association: “bang” in German
This word also exists in German! Meaning: “scared, frightened, afraid, fearful”
bang
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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections
Definitions & Usage
A sudden percussive noise.
A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
An explosion.
(US, archaic) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
(chiefly US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
(mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
(vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
(slang, mining) An explosive product.
(slang) An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
(slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
(Ireland, colloquial, slang) strong smell (of)
(intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
(ambitransitive) To hit hard.
(slang, ambitransitive, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.
(with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
(transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
(transitive, slang, drugs) To inject intravenously.
(finance, transitive, dated) To depress the prices in (a market).
(slang, transitive, obsolete) To excel or surpass.
(intransitive, stative, slang) To be excellent; to be banging
(Nigeria, slang) To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
(New England, slang, intransitive) To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
(US, slang) 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.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'.”
— 1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 39:
“his hair cut in front like a young lady's bang”
— 1880, William Dean Howells, The Undiscovered Country:
“She was not much to look at. Her red hair hung in an uncurled bang over her forehead”
— 1902, Barbara Baynton, Squeaker's Mate; reprinted in Carmel Bird, editor, The Penguin Century of Australian Stories, 2000, →ISBN: