Definition of bang-bang in English English dictionary
- 11 Bang-Bang
- An infantryman. Slang from the MOS designation "11B" (pronounced "11 Bravo"). Related variations include 11 Bush and, pejoratively, 11 Bulletstop
- Big Bang
- The cosmic event that marks the beginning of time and the rapid expansion of space for the visible universe. The evolution of the universe since that beginning point is described by the Big Bang Theory
- bang
- A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
- bang
- An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano
- bang
- An explosion
- bang
- The symbol !, known as an exclamation point
An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
- bang
- To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something
The fireworks banged away all through the night.
- bang
- a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound
He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, Bang!.
- bang
- An explosive product, in mining
Load the bang into the hole.
- bang
- A fringe of hair cut across the forehead. (British: fringe)
1902: She was not much to look at. Her red hair hung in an uncurled bang over her forehead — Barbara Baynton, short story Squeaker's Mate (variously reprinted, including in The Penguin Century of Australian Stories, ed. Carmel Bird, 2000, ISBN 0-670-89233-5).
- bang
- An act of sexual intercourse
- bang
- plural: Brucellosis, a bacterial disease (a corruption of the alternate name "Bang's disease")
- bang
- An abrupt left turn, in Boston slang; the opposite of this, an abrupt right turn, is a hang
- bang
- To hammer or to hit anything hard
Hold the picture while I bang in this nail.
- bang
- A sudden percussive noise
When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.
- bang
- To engage in sexual intercourse
- bang
- A strike upon an object causing such a noise
- bang about
- To make a lot of percussive noise while doing an activity
- bang around
- To make a lot of percussive noise while doing an activity
- bang away
- to strike or hit repeatedly
bang away on the drums.
- bang away
- to constantly and irritatingly talk (about)
My folks keep banging away at me to study harder.
- bang away
- to work tirelessly
I've been banging away at the essay for ages, but it still isn't finished.
- bang for the buck
- Efficiency; cost-effectiveness; value
Do you think he would get as much bang for the buck out of a fancier, more expensive car?.
- bang on
- To constantly talk about
I started recycling, just so she’d stop banging on about it to me.
- bang on
- Exactly at
She’s bang on the dot, as usual.
- bang on about
- To keep talking endlessly about the same subject
He was banging on about the election results. I just stopped listening after a while.
- bang out
- To do something quickly, in a slipshod, or unprofessional manner
The band were banging out a vaguely recognisable version of the Star Spangled Banner.
- bang straw
- A nick name for a thresher, but applied to all the servants of a farmer
- bang to rights
- caught red-handed; in a guilty state
Mad Pierre sarcastically responded that the spammer was correct. “Damn, you've got us bang to rights.
- bang to rights
- To have sufficient, undisputable evidence that a person's actions are generally perceived to be wrong; to catch red-handed
Good week for: Cyclists, after Britain's most prolific bicycle thief was banged to rights.
- bang up
- To put someone in prison
He was so drunk that the police banged him up for the night.
- bang up
- Wonderful
He’s doing a bang up good job.
- bang up
- To damage
He banged up his new car last night.
- bang up cove
- a dashing fellow who spends his money freely
- bang-up
- Especially good; wonderful; superb
When we get to Nashville, let's find some nice place to eat, and let's have the best bang-up chicken dinner in town!”.
- big bang
- An explosion giving rise to a universe
Millions of big bangs may be happening as we speak.
- big bang
- In project management, a project that has no staged delivery. The customer must wait, sometimes months, before seeing anything. At the end of the wait comes a "big bang"
- gang bang
- An orgy, especially a sexual one
2005: This gang-bang speaks more to journalistic groupthink than to any real moral or legal reasoning. - Jacob Weisberg, Slate Magazine.
- gang bang
- A gang fight
- gang bang
- A gang rape
- gang bang
- Protecting gang turf, especially when dealing drugs or other black market objects
- slam-bang
- Violent, forceful
The waiter took my order, a slam-bang something with eggs and pancakes: enough cholesterol to power the whole state of Idaho.
- slam-bang
- Impressive, exciting
An eentsy-weentsy office with a slam-bang T1 connection that she couldn't figure out how to hook up to her slam-bang computer that she couldn't figure out how to plug in.
- slam-bang
- Shot or hit with a noise
Well! as soon as I jumped out of his way, bang went his piece, and bang went another, let fly by an Injun;—down went the Major, shot right through the hips, slam-bang.
- slam-bang
- Noisy activity
But James in describing the slam-bang of her upbringing has given us every reason for her turning out crazy, vengeful or anti-social.
- slam-bang
- Noisy, raucous
Fifteen years of marriage in full would cry out for a slam-bang celebration.
- slap bang
- Exactly, precisely
Nick Clegg at the NUS conference April 2010; I hope your conference is going to go well. You've certainly chosen a great time to hold it – slap bang in the middle of a general election campaign.
- bang
- {v} t. to beat, thump, use or treat roughly
- bang
- {n} a blow, thump, knock, stroke, rap
- Boom Bang Bang
- "Düm Tek Tek" is a song by Turkish singer Hadise that was performed as the Turkish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia
- bang for the buck
- (deyim) Value for the money spent
We were able to get a big bang for our buck when we advertised on the Internet.
- get a bang out of
- (deyim) Derive excitement or pleasure from
- with a bang
- Abruptly
- with a bang
- Impressively
- bang
- {i} strike, hit; sound of an explosion; slam; cannabis, hemp
- bang
- 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
- bang
- If you bang a part of your body, you accidentally knock it against something and hurt yourself. She'd fainted and banged her head He hurried into the hall, banging his shin against a chair in the darkness. Bang is also a noun. a nasty bang on the head
- bang
- directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her"
- bang
- with a sudden slamming boom; noisily
- bang
- 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
- bang
- when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn
- bang
- Spoken name for an exclamation point, used in old-style UUCP addresses to delimit the steps in a path from one site to another
- bang
- a sudden very loud noise
- bang
- directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her
- bang
- a fringe of banged hair (cut short squarely across the forehead) a sudden very loud noise the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
- bang
- If you bang a door or if it bangs, it closes suddenly with a loud noise. the sound of doors banging All up and down the street the windows bang shut The wind banged a door somewhere. = slam
- bang
- strike violently; "slam the ball"
- bang
- In programming, a common slang term for an excalmation point (!) In HTML, a common slant term for a forward slash (/)
- bang
- to bang your head against a brick wall: see brick. To cut (hair) in bangs. Variant of bhang
- bang
- If something bangs, it makes a sudden loud noise, once or several times. The engine spat and banged
- bang
- If you bang on something or if you bang it, you hit it hard, making a loud noise. We could bang on the desks and shout till they let us out There is no point in shouting or banging the table
- bang
- Bangs are hair which is cut so that it hangs over your forehead
- bang
- emphasis You can use bang to emphasize expressions that indicate an exact position or an exact time. bang in the middle of the track For once you leave bang on time for work. = right see also big bang theory
- bang
- Colloquial name for gelignite
- bang
- to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound; "One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my bed"
- bang
- A bang is a sudden loud noise such as the noise of an explosion. I heard four or five loud bangs She slammed the door with a bang
- bang
- Another name for the exclamation point (!)
- bang
- The sound produced by a sudden concussion
- bang
- {ü} boom!
- bang
- close violently; "He slammed the door shut"
- bang
- The exclamation point! Used to separate machine names in UUCP bang-style addressing, which isn't all that common anymore
- bang
- type term
- bang
- If you bang something on something or if you bang it down, you quickly and violently put it on a surface, because you are angry. She banged his dinner on the table He banged down the telephone
- bang
- Club
- bang
- A term often used for the exclamation point (!)
- bang
- {f} beat, strike; make constant noise; cut hair shorter exposing more of the forehead; (Aggressive Slang) engage in sexual intercourse, couple
- bang
- a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"
- bang
- leap, jerk, bang; "Bullets spanged into the trees"
- bang
- or bann (feminine, gen bainne, bainge) a stroke (swimming, rowing)
- bang
- If you say bang goes something, you mean that it is now obvious that it cannot succeed or be achieved. There will be more work to do, not less. Bang goes the fantasy of retirement at
- bang
- To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair)
- bang
- plural: Brucellosis, a bacterial disease (a corruption of the alternate name "Bangs disease")"
- bang
- In Unix-ese, an exclamation point The C shell command !!, which repeats the last command, for example, is pronounced "Bang!Bang!" Try this with your children they will love it
- bang
- If you bang into something or someone, you bump or knock them hard, usually because you are not looking where you are going. Various men kept banging into me in the narrow corridor. = bump
- bang
- move noisily; "The window banged shut"; "The old man banged around the house"
- bang
- have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
- bang
- a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang"
- bang
- To inject drugs
- bang
- The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp
- bang
- To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly
- bang
- a fringe of banged hair (cut short squarely across the forehead)
- bang
- the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
- bang
- 12. If something begins or ends with a bang, it begins or ends with a lot of energy, enthusiasm, or success. Her career began with a bang in 1986
- bang
- A blow as with a club; a heavy blow
- bang about
- {f} make much noise about something
- bang against
- knock into, bump into
- bang around
- To hang around, or spend idle time in Between adventures, bashers sometimes "bang around the Cage "
- bang away
- {f} work with effort and diligently (e.g., "The student was banging away at his school project until it was finished"); attack stubbornly and ask questions aggressively (e.g."The reporters are going to keep banging away at him")
- bang into
- {f} smash into; collide into; crash into
- bang out
- play loudly; "They banged out `The star-spangled banner'
- bang out
- play loudly; "They banged out `The star-spangled banner'"
- bang the drum
- pound on the drum (percussion instrument)
- bang up
- {f} damage, beat someone badly; damage badly (e.g., "He banged up his car")
- bang up
- damage or destroy as if by violence; "The teenager banged up the car of his mother
- bang up
- damage or destroy as if by violence; "The teenager banged up the car of his mother"
- bang up
- make pregnant; "He impregnated his wife again"
- bang-on
- If someone is bang-on with something, they are exactly right in their opinions or actions. If we are not bang-on with our preparations then we could have problems
- bang-up
- very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing
- bang-up
- very good
- bang-up
- {s} (Colloquial) excellent, terrific, top-notch (e.g. That sure was a bang-up party; it may be the best one I've ever been to!)
- big bang
- (a) A widely accepted model for the beginning of the Universe, the Big Bang explains the expansion of the Universe and the cosmic microwave background radiation Basically it states that the Universe is cooling from a hot, dense explosion, and matter came from this first fireball of radiation (b) Term applied to the drummer of a goblin rock band, who inadvertently smashed too hard one day, breaking the skin and letting loose all the stuff inside Since then the goblins have resolved to make the best of a bad situation See also big crunch
- big bang
- A theory of cosmology that the universe originated billions of years ago as a violent eruption of a single point binary compounds - Chemical compounds made of only two elements bipolar jets - Material emitted in streams from opposites sides of an object
- big bang
- (cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe
- big bang
- A theory of cosmology in which the expansion of the Universe is presumed to have begun with a primeval explosion
- big bang
- A cosmological theory in which the Universe begins expanding from a dense, superhot state of radiation and matter; this expansion of space presumably started some 15 to 20 billion years ago and produced the cosmic background radiation
- big bang
- According to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, the expanding universe originated from a singular point in space This explosive event (about 13 billion years ago) was dubbed the Big Bang by the skeptical British Astrophysicist, Fred Hoyle, and the name stuck Hoyle was an advocate of the steady state universe, but that theory has very few advocates today Evidence for the Big Bang is overwhelming
- big bang
- Singularity at the beginning of the universe
- big bang
- The primeval explosion which most astronomers think gave rise to the universe as we see it today, in which clusters of galaxies are moving apart from one another By "running the film backward'' — projecting the galaxies' motions backward of time — astronomers calculate that the Big Bang happened about 10 to 15 billion years ago
- big bang
- The most widely accepted theory of the origin of the Universe, according to which it began in a hot, infinitely dense state 10 to 20 billion years ago and has been expanding and cooling ever since
- big bang
- A model for the evolution of the Universe, which postulates its origin in a hot, dense state that rapidly expanded to a cooler, less dense state A host of recent astronomical evidence strongly supports this model
- big bang
- The primordial explosion that is thought to have resulted in the expanding universe
- big bang
- The singularity at the beginning of the universe
- big bang
- The name given to the initial instant of the expanding universe theory, in which the universe begins as an infinitely dense and hot medium Big Bang is supposed to be a kind of explosion out of which all the matter in the universe was generated Estimates are that the age of the universe is about 15 000 000 000 years
- big bang
- The beginning event in the Universe The explosion of this primordial fireball some 15 billion years ago caused the initial outward expansion of gas and dust which formed the universe CETI: An acronym for Communication with Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
- big bang
- The theory that suggests that the universe was formed from a single point in space during a cataclysmic explosion about 18 billion years ago The force of the explosion accounts for the current expansion of the universe
- big bang
- Theory that suggests that about 15 billion years ago all of the matter and energy in the universe was concentrated into an area smaller than a dime At this instant Then suddenly, the universe began to expand at an incredible rate and matter, energy, space and time came into being As the universe expanded, matter began to coalesce into gas clouds, and then stars and planets Some scientists believe that this expansion is finite and will one day cease After this point in time, the universe will begin to collapse until a Big Crunch occurs
- big bang
- The explosion and rapid explansion of matter that occurred at the creation of our universe In the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang, all matter is thought to have consisted of free quarks and gluons at extremely high temperatures and densities This plasma then cooled and coalesced into the particles and atoms that now make up all objects in the universe
- big bang
- The big-bang theory of cosmology that proposes that 10 to 20 billion years ago there was an explosion of some initial state of extreme density and temperature, producing all matter and radiation in the universe [2: big-bang ]; [3: Cosmic Electrodynamic Mode: alternative to big bang theory ]; [2: big bang, yin & yang ]; [3: bigbang html ]; [3: From the Big Bang to the Present ]
- big bang
- the initial explosive event marking the beginning of the universe, and responsible for the observed expansion of the universe
- big bang
- The cosmic explosion that marked the origin of the universe according to the big bang theory. the name given to the changes in the system and rules of the London Stock Exchange which came into effect on December 27th 1986. Model of the origin of the universe, which holds that it emerged from a state of extremely high temperature and density in an explosive expansion 10 billion-15 billion years ago. Its two basic assumptions that Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity correctly describes the gravitational interaction of all matter and that an observer's view of the universe does not depend on direction of observation or on location make it possible to calculate physical conditions in the universe back to a very early time called the Planck time (after Max Planck). According to the model proposed by George Gamow in the 1940s, the universe expanded rapidly from a highly compressed early state, with a steady decrease in density and temperature. Within seconds, matter predominated over antimatter and certain nuclei formed. It took another million years before atoms could form and electromagnetic radiation could travel through space unimpeded. The abundances of hydrogen, helium, and lithium and the discovery of cosmic background radiation support the model, which also explains the redshifts of the light from distant galaxies as resulting from the expansion of space
- big bang
- Beginning of the universe; a transition from conditions of unimaginable density and temperature to conditions of lower density and temperature
- big bang
- The first big shake-up of the stock market, in October 1986 This marked the end of single capacity, in which jobbers bought and sold shares for their own account and stockbrokers acted as agents only Afterwards brokers could hold and trade shares and many of them were wise enough to do so at the time of the 1987 crash This was followed in 1996 by the introduction of CREST and then in 1997 by Big Bang II
- big bang
- theoretical explosion that created the universe (Astronomy)
- big bang
- the giant explosion that created the universe 10 billion to 20 billion years ago
- big bang
- an explosion that took place at the beginning of time in which the universe was created out of
- big bang
- Event that cosmologists consider the beginning of the universe, in which all matter and radiation in the entire universe came into being
- big bang
- The theory that the universe expands adiabatically according to the standard equations of general relativity from an initial state of infinite density, temperature, and pressure except during the period from about 10 -43 to 10 -34 seconds (of the universe's existence), when it expanded at an exponentially accelerated rate
- big bang theory
- model according to which the universe was created from a gigantic explosion of one point
- big bang theory
- In astronomy the big bang theory is a theory that suggests that the universe was created as a result of an extremely large explosion. A cosmological theory holding that the universe originated approximately 20 billion years ago from the violent explosion of a very small agglomeration of matter of extremely high density and temperature. the idea that the universe began with a single large explosion (the 'big bang'), and that the pieces are still flying apart steady state theory
- big-bang theory
- (cosmology) the theory that the universe originated 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small mass of matter at extremely high density and temperature
- gang bang
- use of many programmers to quickly complete a complex product (Computers); instance in which several persons engage in sexual intercourse with one person (Vulgar Slang); gang rape (Vulgar Slang)
- go bang
- explode
- interjection bang 4
- used to make a sound like a gun or bomb
- loud bang
- loud sharp noise, loud rapping sound (like that of a collision or gunfire)
- slam-bang
- in a violent or sudden or noisy manner; "the pans fell slam-bang and woke the whole house"
- slam-bang
- forcefully, noisily, powerfully
- slam-bang
- violent and sudden and noisy; "a slam-bang collision"
- slam-bang
- with heedless speed; "yachts ran slap-bang into the convoy at 15 knots an hour
- slap bang
- Slap bang is used in expressions such as slap bang in the middle of somewhere to mean exactly in that place. Of course, slap-bang in the middle of town the rents are high
- slap-bang
- in a violent or sudden or noisy manner; "the pans fell slam-bang and woke the whole house"
- slap-bang
- directly or immediately; "it hit slap-bang in the middle"
- slap-bang
- directly or immediately; "it hit slap-bang in the middle