Usually means: Sudden loud noise; explosive impact.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bang: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bang, bang: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bang, bang, bang: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bang: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bang: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bang, bang, bang, bang: Wordnik
  7. bang: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bang: Wiktionary
  9. bang: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bang: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bang: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bang: Dictionary.com
  13. bang: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bang: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Bang: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bang: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bang: Rhymezone
  19. bang, bang: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bang: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BANG: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. bang: Free Dictionary
  23. bang: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Bang, bang: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. bang: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bang (album), bang: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bang: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. bang: Netlingo
  3. bang: CCI Computer
  4. bang: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. Bang (album), bang: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Bang (album), bang: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. BANG: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. bang: Idioms

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bang: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Bang: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. bang: ESL Slang page
  6. BANG: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sudden percussive noise.
noun:  A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
noun:  An explosion.
noun:  (US, archaic) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
noun:  (chiefly US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
noun:  (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
noun:  (vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
noun:  An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
noun:  (slang, mining) An explosive product.
noun:  (slang) An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
noun:  (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
noun:  (Ireland, colloquial, slang) strong smell (of)
noun:  (slang) A thrill.
verb:  (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
verb:  (slang, transitive, intransitive, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.
verb:  (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
verb:  (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
verb:  (transitive, slang, drugs) To inject intravenously.
verb:  (finance, transitive, dated) To depress the prices in (a market).
verb:  (slang, transitive, obsolete) To excel or surpass.
verb:  (intransitive, stative, slang) To be excellent; to be banging
verb:  (Nigeria, slang) To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
verb:  (New England, slang, intransitive) To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
verb:  (US, slang) Shortened form of gangbang, to participate in street gang criminal activity.
adverb:  Right, directly.
adverb:  Precisely.
adverb:  With a sudden impact.
noun:  Alternative form of bhang (“cannabis”) [(India, Kenya, Uganda, elsewhere slang) Cannabis and preparations thereof.]

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