slam-bang
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slam-bang
adjective
- Noisy, raucous. At a signal from Horko's box there was an all-out, slam-bang, grand salute of the guns and with it a pounding of the deep liquid bass drums.
- Violent, forceful. "If you had led the rough, tough, slam-bang, every-man-for-himself life I have, you wouldn't be frightened of gorillas...."
- Impressive, exciting. "I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman."
adverb
- Shot or hit with a noise. 19th cent., Robert Montgomery Bird, Nick of the Woods, 1967 Rowman & Littlefield edition, →ISBN, page 48, Well! as soon as I jumped out of his way, bang went his piece, and bang went another, let fly by an Injun;—down went the Major, shot right through the hips, slam-bang.
noun slam-bangs
- Noisy activity. From far down the hall came the staccato notes of a new term, the slam-bang of teachers flinging open cabinets, filling trash cans, stapling lists to bulletin boards, dragging desks into optimistic configurations.
verb slam-bangs · slam-banging · slam-banged
- To beat noisily. 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He was forever slam-banging the microphone stand & twisting the cord around himself.
Talk about this word "slam-bang." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/slam-bang. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. slam-bang. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/slam-bang "slam-bang." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/slam-bang.
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@misc{slam_bang_2026,
title = {slam-bang},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/slam-bang},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
