Usually means: Sudden, sharp feeling of hunger.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pang: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pang: Merriam-Webster
  3. pang: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pang: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pang: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pang: Vocabulary.com
  7. P'ang, Pang, pang: Wordnik
  8. pang: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pang, pang: Wiktionary
  10. pang: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pang: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pang: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pang: Dictionary.com
  14. pang: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pang: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pang (album), Pang (surname), Pang (video game), Pang: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pang: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pang: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pang: Rhymezone
  20. pang: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pang: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pang: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pang: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pang: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pang, pang: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pang: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pang: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pang, pang: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. PANG: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pang: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pang: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
noun:  (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture.
noun:  A surname from Chinese.
noun:  A surname from Khmer.
noun:  A minor river in Berkshire, England, which flows into the Thames at Pangbourne.

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