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  1. noun A sudden loud noise, as of an explosion.
  2. noun A sudden loud blow or bump.
  3. noun Informal A sudden burst of action: The campaign started off with a bang.
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  • Perhaps the universe existed before the bang, and the bang was just a violent event in a pre-existing universe. —  Neil Turok makes his TED Prize wish
  • Bang-bang was the first person to see him arrive The water had miraculously dried up. —  SomethingWickedSFandHorrorMagazine#6
  • By all accounts, the whale being hacked by Bang-bang was the most content. —  SomethingWickedSFandHorrorMagazine#6
  • Opening this CD with a bang is a rousing tune called "Willie-D", penned by Skaff as a tribute to the prolific blues composer, vocalist and bassist Willie Dixon.
  • Scientists hope to eventually recreate conditions that were in place a split second after the big bang, which is the massive explosion that they believe created the universe. —  KEYT - News - Local
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thud ·  clang ·  crash ·  rumble ·  roar ·  splash ·  click ·  scream ·  crack ·  squeal ·  hiss ·  knock

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bang:   bangs ·  banged ·  banging
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Probably from Old Norse bang, a hammering.
  2. From bang1.

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  1. Early modern English also bangue; not found in Middle English, but prob. existent; of native or Scandinavian origin, = Low German bangen, freq. bangeln, strike, beat (cf. Dutch bengel, a bell, bengelen, ring a bell, Middle High German bengel, a club, German bengel, a club, clown), = Icelandic banga = Old Swedish bånga, hammer, = Norwegian banka = Danish banke, beat. In popular apprehension the word is imitative.
  2. = Icelandic bang = Swedish bång, a hammering, = Norwegian Danish bank, a beating; from the verb.
  3. Adverbial use of bang, v. or n.
  4. from bang, adv.; to cut the hair ‘bang off.’
  5. from bang, v.
 

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