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bang

Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋ/

The English word “bang” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A sudden percussive noise.
  2. A heavy strike upon an object causing such a noise.
  3. An explosion.
  4. Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
  5. The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
  6. A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is written as n!
  7. An act of sexual intercourse.
  8. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
  9. An explosive product.
  10. An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
  11. An abrupt left turn.
  12. strong smell (of)
  13. A thrill.

verb

  1. To make sudden loud noises, often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
  2. To hit hard.
  3. To play a drum.
  4. To engage in sexual intercourse.
  5. To hammer or to hit anything hard.
  6. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
  7. To inject intravenously.

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…

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