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Definition of Banging

1. Adjective. (used informally) very large. "A thumping loss"

2. Noun. A continuing very loud noise.

3. Noun. The act of subjecting to strong attack.

Definition of Banging

1. a. Huge; great in size.

Definition of Banging

1. Verb. (present participle of bang) ¹

2. Noun. The action of the verb to bang. ¹

3. Adjective. (slang) Excellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great. ¹

4. Adjective. (colloquial dated) Huge; great in size. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Banging

1. bang [v] - See also: bang

Lexicographical Neighbors of Banging

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bangle bangle ear bangle ears bangled bangleless bangles bangless bangs bangster

Literary usage of Banging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... tralla may be requisito befare banging tue papen; and washing old papers from off the wall", should always be insisted upon by the owner of a house, ..."

2. Wessex by Clive Holland (1906)
"drum-thumping, cymbal-banging, and loud-voiced en treaties, ... More banging, more vociferations regarding tr.t mysteries within to be seen for only ..."

3. The Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical by Henry Ashby, George Arthur Wright (1889)
"It consists in a peculiar habit, to which some children arc liable, of turning over on to their face at night and banging their heads into the pillow. ..."

4. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1860)
"third stalk is put on the same pide of the first, the twine passed around, and the next on the other side, end doors, to show tbe manner of banging the ..."

5. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1879)
"There is the clerical parasite, banging on. to the dignitaries of the Church ; toadying private patrons, pretending to interest himself in the labours of ..."

6. Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of by Arthur Richard Wellesley Wellington (1871)
"... hither a line to me, and tell him that he shall be well rewarded, if he will procure an opportunity to this party to give the rogues a banging. [ 472. ..."

7. Letters of James Smetham by James Smetham (1892)
"His painting is like an Oratorio: while his choruses are drumming and banging and roaring, the painter is prepared to take things easily; but when the more ..."

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