bang

Meaning

1. A sudden percussive noise.
2. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
3. An explosion.
4. Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
5. The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
6. A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
7. (slang) 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. (slang) An abrupt left turn.
12. (colloquial,slang) strong smell (of)
13. (slang) A thrill.

hit

strike

belabour

have a go at it

have intercourse

be intimate

have it away

loud noise

go off with a bang

receive a blow

crash down

flop down

strike hard

kapow

with a thud

stroke

slap-bang

beat hard

suddenly and loudly

thump out

beat violently

fall kerflop

foretop

impulsive force

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bæŋ(ɡ)/

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.