bang

1 a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head" [syn: knock, bash, smash, belt]

2 a sudden very loud noise [syn: clap, eruption, blast, loud noise]

3 a fringe of banged hair (cut short squarely across the forehead)

4 the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick]

5 a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang" [syn: hit, smash, smasher, strike] adv : directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her" [syn: slap, slapdash, smack, bolt]

1 strike violently; "slam the ball" [syn: slam]

2 to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound; "One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my bed"

3 close violently; "He slammed the door shut" [syn: slam]

4 move noisily; "The window banged shut"; "The old man banged around the house"

5 have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, get it on, bonk]

6 leap, jerk, bang; "Bullets spanged into the trees" [syn: spang]

English

Pronunciation

• /bæŋ/
• SAMPA: /b

Bang or bangs may refer to:

• Fringe (hair), hair that is cut short around the forehead, known as bangs in North America
• An onomatopoeia for the sound of a gunshot or other small explosions
• !BANG!, a professional wrestling promotion
• Bang Cartoon, a website that hosts cartoons
• Bang path, a specification for routing e-mail via UUCP
• Shebang (Unix), a shell scripting convention
• BANG file
• Bang, Greek pop music band
• Bangs, Texas
• Bang's disease or Bangs, a bacterial disease
• Exclamation mark, in printer and computer jargon
• Bang (company), an Italian scale model car manufacturer
• "Bang", a common euphemism for sexual intercourse

In music:

• Bang Records, a record label
• Bangs (band), an American punk rock band
• Bang! (hardcore), the Happy Hardcore group
• Bang! (Rutter), an opera by John Rutter
• Bang (James Gang album)
• Bang! (1985 Frankie Goes to Hollywood album)
• Bang!… The Greatest Hits of Frankie Goes to Hollywood
• "Bang" (song), a song by Blur
• "Bang!" A popular alternative nightclub in Melbourne, Australia.
• "Bang!" (Yeah Yeah Yeahs song)
• "Bang" (Young Jeezy song)
• "Bangs", a song by They Might Be Giants
• Bang!, an album by the band World Party
• Bang!, an album by Corey Hart

In film and television:

• Bang (film), a 1995 independent film directed by Ash
• "Bang" (Desperate Housewives episode)
• "Bang" (The Shield)

In games:

• Bang (Korean), an amusement room for computer games, drinking, or other entertainment
• Bang!, a Wild West-themed card game
• Bang! Howdy, an online strategy game
• Bang! (drama game)
• Bang! (arcade game), a Wild West shoot 'em up arcade game released by Gaelco in 1998

People with the family name Bang or Bangs

• Lester Bangs, American music journalist
• Lance Bangs, American filmmaker
• John Kendrick Bangs, 19th-century writer
• Outram Bangs (1863–1932), American zoologist
• Molly Bang (born 1943) American illustrator
• Bang Seong Joon, South Korean voice actor
• Bang Young-ung (born 1942), South Korean novelist
• Anton Christian Bang (born 1840), Norwegian politician
• Christian Bang (born 1980), Grizzled Minnesotan

See also

• Boom (disambiguation page)
• Bang Bang (disambiguation page)
• Bhang, a cannabis derivative from the Indian subcontinent

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