- [countable] a sudden loud noise
- The door swung shut with a bang.
- Suddenly there was a loud bang and a puff of smoke.
Extra Examples- She slammed the door with a loud bang.
- The engine let out a bang.
- We suddenly heard an almighty bang from the kitchen.
- Will the firework make a loud enough bang?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- almighty
- big
- enormous
- …
- hear
- echo
- with a bang
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- [countable] a sudden painful hit on a part of the body
- a bang on the head
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- nasty
- get
- have
- bangs[plural] (North American English)(British English fringe)the front part of somebody’s hair that is cut so that it hangs over their forehead
- She blew her bangs out of her face.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- blond
- brown
- etc.
- …
- blow
- brush
- pull back
- …
- (also bhang)[uncountable] the leaves and flower tops of the cannabis plant, used as a drug
- [countable] (informal, computing) the symbol ( ! )
Word Originmid 16th cent.: imitative, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare with Old Norse bang ‘hammering’.
Idioms
See bang in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybang for your buck
- (especially North American English, informal) if you get more, better, etc. bang for your buck, you get better value for the money you spend or the effort you put in to something
come back/down to earth (with a bang/bump) | bring somebody (back) down to earth (with a bang/bump)
- (informal) to return, or to make somebody return, to a normal way of thinking or behaving after a time when you/they have been very excited, not very practical, etc. see also down to earth
with a bang (informal)
- very successfully
- The party went with a bang.
- in a way that everyone notices; with a powerful effect
- The team won their last four games, ending the season with a bang.
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