bang

Significado (English)

Noun

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.

Verb

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

Synonyms

hit

strike

slam

thump

beat

knock

pop

bump

clap

👏

thud

slap

smash

boom

💥

belt

crash

fuck

👉👌

whack

bash

crack

blow

explosion

screw

clatter

blast

punch

👊

hump

eff

thrash

thrill

clack

smack

kick

fringe

smite

throb

charge

right

buffet

cudgel

bonk

get laid

hammer

🔨

rush

flush

clout

rap

flap

have sex

love

❤️

sleep together

detonate

detonation

immediately

ram

🐏

thwack

impinge

directly

roar

roll in the hay

drive

drum

🥁

jab

bolt

jazz

bam

shock

⚡

eruption

clank

slapdash

sleep with

know

smasher

spang

boot

👢

attack

👊

make love

make out

bed

🛏️

belabour

strike down

clobber

swat

swipe

burst

report

percussion

biff

dash

💨

get it on

wallop

whip

have a go at it

poke

have intercourse

be intimate

have it away

do it

pound

💷

lie with

loud noise

have it off

plunk

point-blank

pommel

popping

precipitate

pull

pulsate

pulse

punish

put

quiff

quite

racket

rattle

repose

retreat

right on

rumble

scour

scramble

scuffle

set

sheer

shoot

shot

shroud

shut down

shy

slat

slog

slosh

slug

smacker

splutter

spring

square

squarely

stamp out

stark

stick

straight

sublimely

suddenly

surging

surpass

swing

tap

thresh

throw

thrust

thunder

🌩️

go off with a bang

top

🔝

receive a blow

very

visit

wedge

whang

whop

work

worst

brattle

crash down

flop down

strike hard

kapow

with a thud

stroke

slap-bang

beat hard

suddenly and loudly

thump out

beat violently

bampot

palmas

kaboom

applaud

fall kerflop

baldly

ballistic

bangs

bat

🦇

batter

beat down

beat out

beat up

bing

blow up

bomb

💣

box

📦

break

brew

butt

campaign

carom

catch

chatter

chime

chirp

chop

clang

clash

clean

click

clink

clip

coin

🪙

collide

collision

💥

concussion

cream

defeat

deposit

depress

din

direct

due

duel

encounter

enjoyment

espouse

excel

excommunication

explode

fan

fight

fix

flat

flop

fly

✈️

forelock

foretop

forge

forthright

forthrightly

full

fully

get hold of

hard

hemp

hurl

hurt

ictus

impact

impetus

impingement

impulse

impulsive force

jangle

jolt

jostle

just

kill

🔪🩸👤

knap

knock about

knockdown

larrup

lash

lay

lodge

marry

match

maul

mint

nail

ned

noisily

on the dot

outdo

outright

overwhelm

palpitate

peal

pick up

play

plop

plum

plump

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/bæŋ(ɡ)/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglês médio: *bangen

Cognate with scots: bang

Cognate with islandês: banga

Cognate with sueco: banka

Cognate with dinamarquês: banke

Cognate with baixo alemão: bangen

Cognate with frísio ocidental: bingel

Cognate with holandês: bengel

Cognate with alemão: 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.