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bangs

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bang 1  (bng)
n.
1. A sudden loud noise, as of an explosion.
2. A sudden loud blow or bump.
3. Informal A sudden burst of action: The campaign started off with a bang.
4. Slang A sense of excitement; a thrill: We got a bang out of watching the old movies.
v. banged, bang·ing, bangs
v.tr.
1. To strike heavily and often repeatedly; bump.
2. To close suddenly and loudly; slam.
3. To handle noisily or violently: banged the pots in the kitchen.
4. Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.
v.intr.
1. To make a sudden loud, explosive noise.
2. To crash noisily against or into something: My elbow banged against the door.
adv.
1. Exactly; precisely: The arrow hit bang on the target.
2. Suddenly; abruptly: cut the conversation bang off.
Phrasal Verbs:
bang away
1. To speak or ask questions in a rapid, aggressive manner: reporters banging away at the official during the press conference.
2. To work diligently and often at length: banged away at the project until it was finished.
bang up
To damage extensively: banged up the car.
Idiom:
bang for the/one's buck
Value returned for investment or effort.

[Probably from Old Norse bang, a hammering.]

bang 2  (bng)
n.
A fringe of hair cut short and straight across the forehead. Often used in the plural.
tr.v. banged, bang·ing, bangs
To cut (hair) in bangs.

[From bang.]

bang 3  (bng)
n.
Variant of bhang.
Translations
bangs [bæŋz] NPL (US) (= fringe) → flequillo m

bangs [ˈbæŋz] npl (US) (= fringe) → frange f

bangs هُداب ofina frynse Pony φράντζα flequillo otsatukka frange šiške frangia 切下げ前髪 가장자리 franje pannelugg grzywka franja челка lugg ชาย kahkül rèm 边缘


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(SARA RAY, DESPAIRINGLY:--"I know ma will never let ME have bangs.
It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other--for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended--the doors we had indiscreetly opened.
In the meantime, there suddenly fell such a violent shower of hail, that I was immediately by the force of it, struck to the ground: and when I was down, the hailstones gave me such cruel bangs all over the body, as if I had been pelted with tennis-balls; however, I made a shift to creep on all fours, and shelter myself, by lying flat on my face, on the lee-side of a border of lemon-thyme, but so bruised from head to foot, that I could not go abroad in ten days.
 
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