Definition of bangs Bangs

/bæˈŋz/ - [bangz] - Bangs

We found 5 definitions of bangs from 2 different sources.

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British English

fringe - /fɹˈɪnd‍ʒ/

American English

bangs - /bæˈŋz/

What does bangs mean?

Wiktionary Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • bangs (Noun)
    Hair cut so as to hang down over the forehead.
  • bangs (Noun)
    Plural of bang.

Part of speech

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  • bangs, verb, present, 3rd person singular of bang (infinitive).
  • bangs, noun, plural of bang.

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: bangs

bang - a sudden very loud noise
  clap, eruption, blast, bam
  noise incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"
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"
  boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick
  exhilaration, excitement the feeling of lively and cheerful joy; "he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed"
bang - a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
  fringe
bang - a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"
  knock, bash, smash, belt
  bump, blow a lump on the body caused by a blow
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"
  hit, smash, smasher, strike
  success an attainment that is successful; "his success in the marathon was unexpected"; "his new play was a great success"
  megahit, smash hit, blockbuster an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)

Verb

bangs, banging, banged  

bang - to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound; "One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my bed"
  sound, go appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting"
bang - move noisily; "The window banged shut"; "The old man banged around the house"
  locomote, travel, move, go change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"
bang - have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
  sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, get it on, bonk
  copulate, mate, couple, pair engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring"
  have, take suffer from; be ill with; "She has arthritis"
  fornicate have sex without being married
bang - close violently; "He slammed the door shut"
  slam
  shut, close finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead; "The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning"
bang - strike violently; "slam the ball"
  slam
  hit pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"
bang - leap, jerk, bang; "Bullets spanged into the trees"
  spang
  collide with, impinge on, run into, hit, strike collide violently with an obstacle; "I ran into the telephone pole"
  dialect, idiom, accent the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"

Adverb

bang - directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her"
  slap, slapdash, smack, bolt
= synonym
= antonym
= related word

Wiktionary Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • bang (Noun)
    A sudden percussive noise.
  • bang (Noun)
    A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
  • bang (Noun)
    An explosion.
  • bang (Noun)
    A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.
  • bang (Noun)
    The symbol !, known as an exclamation point .
  • bang (Noun)
    A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
  • bang (Noun)
    An act of sexual intercourse .
  • bang (Noun)
    An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
  • bang (Noun)
    An explosive product.
  • bang (Noun)
    An abrupt left turn.
  • bang (Noun)
    Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.
  • bang (Verb)
    To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
  • bang (Verb)
    To hit hard.
  • bang (Verb)
    To engage in sexual intercourse .
  • bang (Verb)
    To hammer or to hit anything hard.
  • bang (Verb)
    To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut the hair.
  • bang (Adverb)
    Right, directly.
  • bang (Adverb)
    Precisely.
  • bang (Adverb)
    With a sudden impact.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • bang (v. t.)
    To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
  • bang (v. t.)
    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 (v. i.)
    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 (n.)
    A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.
  • bang (n.)
    The sound produced by a sudden concussion.
  • bang (v. t.)
    To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).
  • bang (n.)
    The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.
  • bang (n.)
    Alt. of Bangue

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • bang
    A song that is very popular for a while.
  • bang
    A bang or blow; the sound of of a crash.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • bang
    bang, n. a heavy blow: a sudden loud noise: an explosion.—v.t. to beat: to strike violently: to slam, as a door: to make a loud noise: to beat or surpass, to bounce upon.—interj. Bang, used with verbs like 'go,' &c., and in such a phrase as 'bang off.'—p.adj. Bang′ing, dealing blows: overwhelming.—adj. Bang′-up (slang), in the height of style or fashion.—n. Bang′ster (prov.), a braggart, a victor. [Scand. banga, to hammer; cf. Ger. bengel, a cudgel.]
  • bang
    bang, n. a woman's hair cut square across the brow.—p.adj. Banged, wearing the hair in such a way.—n. Bang′-tail, a horse's tail with the end squared. [An Americanism, doubtless from the phrase 'bang off.']

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book

  • bang
    A mixture of opium, hemp-leaves, and tobacco, of an intoxicating quality, chewed and smoked by the Malays and other people in the East, who, being mostly prohibited the use of wine, double upon Mahomet by indulging in other intoxicating matter, as if the manner of doing it cleared off the crime of drunkenness. This horrid stuff gives the maddening excitement which makes a Malay run amok (which see).--To bang is colloquially used to express excelling or beating rivals. (See SUFFOLK BANG.)

Part of speech

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  • bang, verb, present, 1st person singular of bang (infinitive).
  • bang, verb (infinitive).
  • bang, noun, singular of bangs.
  • bang, adjective.

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