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banging

verbnounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //ˈbæŋ.ɪŋ//
  • //ˈbeɪ̯ŋ.ɪŋ//
  • //ˈbɛ̃ŋ.ɪŋ//

The action or sound of something that bangs.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of bangpresent participle and gerund of bang

    He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!

noun

  1. 1

    The action or sound of something that bangs.

    The banging of the hammers could be heard from several streets away.

    Strange bangings in the old house were ascribed to a poltergeist.

  2. 2

    slangA session of sexual intercourse.

adjective

  1. 1

    slangExcellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great.

    Wow, what a banging haircut! It looks terrific!

    I was thinking maybe there's this banging burrito place in Brixton we could go to.

  2. 2

    slangAttractive; sexually appealing.

  3. 3

    datedHuge; great in size.

    I was always considered Homer's account of the Nepenthe as a Banging lie.

Forms

plural
bangings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).