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Banging

Bang \Bang\ (b[a^]ng), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banged; p. pr. & vb. n. Banging.] [Icel. banga to hammer; akin to Dan. banke to beat, Sw. b[*a]ngas to be impetuous, G. bengel club, clapper of a bell.]

  1. To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

    The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.
    --Shak.

  2. 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.

  3. To have sexual intercourse with; to fuck; -- usually used with the male as a subject. Considered vulgar or obscene.

Banging

Banging \Bang"ing\, a. Huge; great in size. [Colloq.]
--Forby.

Wiktionary
banging
  1. 1 (context slang English) excellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great. 2 (context colloquial dated English) Huge; great in size. n. The action of the verb bang. v

  2. (present participle of bang English)

WordNet
banging
  1. adj. (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss" [syn: humongous, thumping, whopping, walloping]

  2. n. a continuing very loud noise

  3. the act of subjecting to strong attack [syn: battering]

Wikipedia
Banging

Banging can refer to;

  • Slang for sexual intercourse
  • Intravenous drug use
  • The act of percussion upon surfaces
  • Kinds of "knocking" or loud recurring sounds such as engine knocking

Usage examples of "banging".

This time he experienced no gradual climb to consciousness, no algetic banging in his head to pull him up.

Miz Smitcher was a night-shift nurse, and she was heading out the front door to her car when Ceese started banging on the back.

The finale was a combination of wild shouting, banging of the cymbals, ringing and murmuring.

She stands, holding Eppie close, feeling her heart banging to get out.

The noise consisted of a banging of pistols, some extemporaneous yelling, and loud explosions.

She did her best to keep from banging into the cliff and twisting about: then Gulyas was reaching down to help her.

Hamster Janders, overweight and with an attitude, is banging the side of his cage.

Prisoners were building a loading platform not far away, and Jute heard the pounds of a hammer - two hard strokes, a quick one, and a final banging blow.

I guess, after he shot Laverock, he ducked to the stairs up to the next floor, then slid back past me while I was banging at the door.

All of a sudden the loadmaster held up two fingers, and everybody was banging the next man and showing two fingers.

And he had never faced a moral decision at 230 feet with narcosis banging.

He could hear the sounds again, distant banging noises that floated across the black waters of Nocturn, emanating from somewhere deep within the mountains.

Like I said, I was waiting for Fatso, just banging the balls around when Nolte came up and started talking to me.

A procession of ordinands in red robes, their freshly shaven heads gleaming with oil, wound in a long straggling line behind men banging tambours.

After she was old enough to walk, whenever she was well enough to get out of bed she ran up and down the corridor in the pediatric unit, banging on doors, barging into the rooms of other sick children, yanking open the drawers in the nursing station, snatching pencils and hospital forms and prescription pads and throwing them on the floor.