Definition of Bang

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Definition of Bang

Bang

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.

A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.

The sound produced by a sudden concussion.

To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).

The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.

Alt. of Bangue

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Bang Quotations

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.
Jimmy Buffett

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.
Gene Simmons

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"
George Will

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
Douglas Horton

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?
Philip Pullman

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.
Stephen Harper

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.
Robert Downey, Jr.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
Oliver Reed

Bang Translations

bang in Dutch is dichtslaan
bang in German is Knall, Knall, schlagen, knallen, Schlag
bang in Portuguese is estrondo

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