bang up

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bang up

adjective

  1. idiomatic, not comparable Good, superior, excellent. He's doing a bang up job.

verb bangs up · banging up · banged up

  1. informal, transitive To damage. He banged up his new car last night.
  2. informal, transitive To put someone in prison, or into their individual cell. He was so drunk that the police banged him up for the night.
  3. intransitive, slang To inject a recreational drug. I knew some fellows who banged up, I mean heroin, but I kind of stayed away from it.

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