How to pronounce “bang”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A sudden percussive noise.
• A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
• An explosion.
• (US, archaic) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
• (chiefly US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
• (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
• (vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
• (slang, mining) An explosive product.
• (slang) An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug). [from 20th c.]
• (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
• (Ireland, colloquial, slang) strong smell (of)
• (slang) A thrill.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
• (ambitransitive) To hit hard.
• (slang, ambitransitive, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.
• (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
• (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
• (transitive, slang, drugs) To inject intravenously.
• (finance, transitive, dated) To depress the prices in (a market).
• (slang, transitive, obsolete) To excel or surpass.
• (intransitive, stative, slang) To be excellent; to be banging
• (Nigeria, slang) To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
• (New England, slang, intransitive) To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
• (US, slang) To gangbang; to participate in street gang criminal activity.
• [Adverb]
• Right, directly.
• Precisely.
• With a sudden impact.
• [Interjection]
• A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.

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