Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective With force and much noise.
- adverb & adjective With heedless speed; slapdash.
- adverb & adjective With vigorous relentless action and pace.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
slap-bang . - To move with violence or noise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb colloq. With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective onomatopoeia Noisy,
raucous . - adjective Violent, forceful
- adjective
Impressive ,exciting . - adverb Shot or hit with a noise
- noun onomatopoeia Noisy activity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with heedless speed
- adverb in a careless or reckless manner
- adjective violent and sudden and noisy
- adverb in a violent or sudden or noisy manner
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Examples
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John Caird's stage direction avoided the kind of slam-bang climaxes often seen in musicals thanks, in large part, to the show's subtle lighting changes.
George Heymont: Twelve Months Till Christmas George Heymont 2011
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Appeasing the fans is an overarching theme this season for NASCAR, which relaxed the rules for bump-drafting at Daytona and has encouraged drivers to embrace more slam-bang action while displaying their emotions.
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The movie settles into a series of ho-hum conflicts and complications, and the requisite slam-bang ending is perfunctory at best.
Iron Man 2 Movie Review ***SPOILERS*** « Monster Scifi Show Blog 2010
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John Caird's stage direction avoided the kind of slam-bang climaxes often seen in musicals thanks, in large part, to the show's subtle lighting changes.
George Heymont: Twelve Months Till Christmas George Heymont 2011
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After five weeks of working on our project, visiting with family and friends, and a slam-bang tour of the South, I began my return trip.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: OpenSkies Beth Arnold 2010
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As directed by David Kaplan (who did such an nice job with 2008's Year of the Fish), Today's Special takes the softer approach to setting up jokes and conflicts rather than the slam-bang technique favored by larger studio films.
George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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As directed by David Kaplan (who did such an nice job with 2008's Year of the Fish), Today's Special takes the softer approach to setting up jokes and conflicts rather than the slam-bang technique favored by larger studio films.
George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Carlo Jr. recently turned part of the building into a fancy micro-beer retail shop, which his father thinks is a slam-bang idea.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Man Who Never Runs Out of Ice Nancy Ruhling 2011
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As directed by David Kaplan (who did such an nice job with 2008's Year of the Fish), Today's Special takes the softer approach to setting up jokes and conflicts rather than the slam-bang technique favored by larger studio films.
George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Even most forms of neorealism don't put much emphasis on plot -- writers having sensibly concluded there's no point in competing with movies for the slam-bang scenario -- and what would be the point of laboriously describing in a synopsis the details of character and setting that the reader simply has to encounter in the finished work?
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