bang

Language: en

🇬🇧 /ˈbæŋ/ 🇺🇸 /ˈbæŋ/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    A sudden loud, sharp noise, such as that made by an explosion or a heavy object striking a hard surface.; A sudden sharp blow or knock.; A fringe of hair cut straight across the forehead, usually in the plural form 'bangs'.; A sudden burst of energy or excitement; a thrill.; The act of sexual intercourse (slang, vulgar).; An exclamation mark (!), used especially in computing and mathematics.; A sudden and complete success or impact, as in the phrase 'with a bang'.
  2. verb
    To strike or hit something forcefully, producing a loud noise.; To make a sudden loud noise, as by exploding or colliding.; To cut hair straight across the forehead to form bangs.; To have sexual intercourse with (slang, vulgar).; To put or place something down forcefully or abruptly.
  3. adverb
    Exactly; precisely; directly.; Suddenly and completely.
  4. interjection
    Used to represent the sound of a sudden loud noise or explosion.

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable Plural: bangs 3rd sing.: bangs Past: banged Past part.: banged Pres part.: banging

Collocations

big bangbang onbang for your buckgo off with a bangget a bang out ofslam bang

Derivatives

bangerbanging

Synonyms

blastboomexplosionslamthumppoundcrack

Commonly confused

banger
EN: 'banger' can mean a firecracker or (British) a sausage; 'bang' is the sound or the act of hitting.
bangs
EN: 'bangs' (always plural in American English) refers to a fringe hairstyle; 'bang' as a singular noun means a loud noise or blow.

Spelling tips

EN: No common spelling issues. Note that 'bangs' meaning a fringe hairstyle is always plural in American English (never 'a bang' for hair).

💬 Examples

  1. The door slammed shut with a loud bang.

  2. He got a bang on the head from the low doorway.

  3. She cut her bangs too short and had to wear a hat for weeks.

  4. He gets a real bang out of skydiving.

  5. They had a quick bang before leaving the party.

  6. In some programming languages, the bang operator negates a boolean value.

  7. The concert ended with a bang, leaving the audience cheering.

  8. She banged on the door until someone finally answered.

  9. The fireworks banged loudly in the night sky.

  10. She asked the hairdresser to bang her hair.