bang

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

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

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
2. (ambitransitive) To hit hard.
3. (ambitransitive, slang, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.
4. To hammer or to hit anything hard.
5. (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
6. (slang, transitive) To inject intravenously.
7. (dated, transitive) To depress the prices in (a market).
8. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To excel or surpass.
9. (intransitive, slang, stative) To be excellent; to be banging
10. (Nigeria, slang) To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
11. (New-England, intransitive, slang) To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
12. (US, slang) To gangbang; to participate in street gang criminal activity.

Adv

1. Right, directly.
2. Precisely.
3. With a sudden impact.

Intj

A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.

Sinonieme

hit

strike

slam

thump

beat

knock

clap

👏

bump

pop

thud

slap

smash

boom

💥

crack

bash

whack

blow

fuck

👉👌

crash

belt

clatter

explosion

blast

screw

hump

thrill

eff

smite

smack

clack

thrash

punch

👊

kick

fringe

buffet

get laid

hammer

🔨

bonk

throb

flush

flap

right

rush

charge

cudgel

rap

clout

belabour

bed

🛏️

immediately

Vertalings

knallen

Knall

klap

knal

golpe

botta

golpear

explosão

bumsen

claquer

dichtslaan

πάταγος

battere

baiser

😗

colpire

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/bæŋ(ɡ)/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: *bangen

Verwante met Skots: bang

Verwante met Yslands: banga

Verwante met Sweeds: banka

Verwante met Deens: banke

Verwante met Nederduits: bangen

Verwante met Fries: bingel

Verwante met Nederlands: bengel

Verwante met Duits: Bengel

In summary

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 knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).
In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off.
In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.