Meaning

• A sudden percussive noise.

  "When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang."

• A strike upon an object causing such a noise.

• An explosion.

• The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.

  "An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path."

• A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!

• An act of sexual intercourse.

• An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.

• An explosive product.

  "Load the bang into the hole."

• An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).

• (Boston area) An abrupt left turn.

• Strong smell (of)

  "There was a bang of onions off his breath."

• A thrill.

Meaning

• To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.

  "My head was banging after drinking all night at the concert."

• To hit hard.

  "David and Mary banged into each other."

• To engage in sexual intercourse.

  "We can hear the couple banging upstairs."

• (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.

  "Hold the picture while I bang in this nail."

• To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).

• To inject intravenously.

  "Do you smoke meth? No, I bang it."

Meaning

• Right, directly.

  "The passenger door was bang against the garage wall."

• Precisely.

  "He arrived bang on time."

• With a sudden impact.

  "Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door."

Meaning

• A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.

  "He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, "Bang!""

Meaning

• Hair hanging over the forehead.

• A hairstyle including such hair, especially cut straight across the forehead.

Meaning

• Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.