bang : Idioms & Phrases

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bang out

  • verb play loudly
    • They banged out `The star-spangled banner'
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bang up

  • verb damage or destroy as if by violence
    smash up; smash.
    • The teenager banged up the car of his mother
  • verb make pregnant
    knock up; impregnate; prang up.
    • He impregnated his wife again
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bang's disease

  • noun an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings
    brucellosis; contagious abortion.
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bang-up

  • adjective satellite very good
    groovy; dandy; corking; bully; not bad; swell; smashing; great; keen; slap-up; neat; cracking; nifty; peachy.
    • he did a bully job
    • a neat sports car
    • had a great time at the party
    • you look simply smashing
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big bang

  • noun (cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe
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big bang theory

  • noun (cosmology) the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature
    big bang theory.
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big-bang theory

  • noun (cosmology) the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature
    big bang theory.
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slam-bang

  • adjective satellite violent and sudden and noisy
    • a slam-bang collision
  • adverb in a careless or reckless manner
    slapdash.
    • the shelves were put up slapdash
  • adverb with heedless speed
    • yachts ran slap-bang into the convoy at 15 knots an hour
  • adverb in a violent or sudden or noisy manner
    slam-bang.
    • the pans fell slam-bang and woke the whole house
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Slam"-bang` adverb
Definitions
  1. With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise. Colloq.
Webster 1913

slap-bang

  • adverb directly or immediately
    • it hit slap-bang in the middle
  • adverb in a violent or sudden or noisy manner
    slam-bang.
    • the pans fell slam-bang and woke the whole house
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