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bang

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1. bang - Noun

2. bang - Verb

3. bang - Adverb

4. bang - Interjection

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged. Alan Guth

I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. Langston Hughes

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang. Carl Sagan

Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics. Joseph Silk

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

Five of them would run from the bang of one empty gun. Afghan Proverb

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