Definitions

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  • adjective Without a bang (noise or explosion).
  • adjective US Without bangs (hairstyle).

Etymologies

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bang +‎ -less

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Examples

  • I too had all those bangs, and am now bang scarred and bangless forever.

    Her Bad Hair | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • I too had all those bangs, and am now bang scarred and bangless forever.

    Her Bad Hair 2007

  • I believe there's a bangless gun, but even so, you're expected to kill things, and I think the things are much happier alive.

    The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931

  • The high classes wore their hair banged across the forehead but hanging to the shoulders the rest of the way around, whereas the lowest ranks of commoners were banged fore and aft both; the slaves were bangless, and allowed their hair free growth.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

  • The high classes wore their hair banged across the forehead but hanging to the shoulders the rest of the way around, whereas the lowest ranks of commoners were banged fore and aft both; the slaves were bangless, and allowed their hair free growth.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6. Mark Twain 1872

  • The high classes wore their hair banged across the forehead but hanging to the shoulders the rest of the way around, whereas the lowest ranks of commoners were banged fore and aft both; the slaves were bangless, and allowed their hair free growth.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872

  • The rest shall remain bangless ... unless of course, they cut their own.

    Mom to the Screaming Masses 2008

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