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bang

noun

1 the door slammed with a bang:

sharp noise, crack, boom, clang, peal, clap, pop, snap, knock, tap, slam, bump, thud, thump, clunk, clonk, clash, crash, smash, smack;

stamp, stomp, clump, clomp;

report, explosion, detonation, shot;

informal wham, whump.

2 a nasty bang on the head:

blow, hit, punch, knock, thump, rap, bump, thwack, smack, crack, slap, welt, cuff, box;

informal bash, whack, clobber, clout, clip, wallop, belt, tan, biff, bop, sock, lam, whomp;

British, informal slosh;

North American, informal boff, bust, slug, whale;

Australian, New Zealand, informal dong;

dated buffet.

verb

1 he began to bang the table with his fist:

hit, strike, beat, thump, hammer, knock, rap, pound, thud, punch, bump, thwack, smack, crack, slap, slam, welt, cuff, pummel, buffet;

informal bash, whack, clobber, clout, clip, wallop, belt, tan, biff, bop, sock, lam, whomp;

British, informal slosh;

North American, informal boff, bust, slug, whale;

Australian, New Zealand, informal dong.

2 the door banged:

go bang, crash, smash, thud.

3 guns were banging all around them:

explode, crack, go off with a bang, detonate, burst, blow up.

adverb informal

1 bang in the middle of town | the train arrived bang on time:

precisely, exactly, right, directly, immediately, squarely, just, dead;

promptly, prompt, dead on, on the stroke of …, on the dot of …;

sharp, on the dot;

informal spot on, smack, slap, slap bang, plumb;

North American, informal on the button, on the nose, smack dab, spang.

2 the machines will be bang up to date:

completely, absolutely, totally, entirely, wholly, fully, thoroughly, utterly, quite, altogether, one hundred per cent, downright, unqualifiedly, in all respects, unconditionally, perfectly, unrestrictedly, undisputedly, to the maximum extent;

informal clean, plumb, dead.

3 the minute something becomes obsolete, bang, it's gone:

suddenly, abruptly, immediately, instantaneously, instantly, in an instant, straight away, all of a sudden, at once, all at once, promptly, in a trice, swiftly;

unexpectedly, without warning, without notice, on the spur of the moment;

informal straight off, out of the blue, in a flash, like a shot, before you can say Jack Robinson, before you can say knife, in two shakes (of a lamb's tail).

bang (1) Oxford Dictionary of English