1.  bang(n = noun.event) bash, belt, knock, smash - a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"
is a kind of blow, bump
Derived form verb bang₁

2.  bang(n = noun.event) bam, blast, clap, eruption - a sudden very loud noise; Array
is a kind of noise
has particulars: water hammer
Derived forms verb bang₄, verb bang₂

3.  bang(n = noun.body) fringe - a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead; Array
is a kind of coif, coiffure, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle

4.  bang(n = noun.feeling) boot, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill - the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
is a kind of excitement, exhilaration

5.  bang(n = noun.act) hit, smash, smasher, strike - a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang"
is a kind of success
has particulars: blockbuster, megahit, smash hit, sleeper

   bang(r = adv.all) bolt, slap, slapdash, smack - directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her"

1.  bang(v = verb.contact) slam - strike violently; "slam the ball"
is one way to hit
Derived form noun bang₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody

2.  bang(v = verb.perception) Array - to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound; "One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my bed"
is one way to go, sound
Derived forms noun bang₂, noun banger₂
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Somebody ----s something

3.  bang(v = verb.contact) slam - close violently; "He slammed the door shut"
is one way to close, shut
Sample sentences: They want to bang the doors

4.  bang(v = verb.motion) Array - move noisily; "The window banged shut"; "The old man banged around the house"
is one way to go, locomote, move, travel
Derived form noun bang₂
Sample sentences: Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP

5.  bang(v = verb.contact) be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with - have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
is one way to copulate, couple, mate, pair
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

6.  bang(v = verb.contact) spang - leap, jerk, bang; "Bullets spanged into the trees"
is one way to collide with, hit, impinge on, run into, strike
Sample sentences: Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s something

1.  To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. [1913 Webster]
"The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks." [1913 Webster]

2.  To beat or thump, or to cause (something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it. [1913 Webster]

3.  To have sexual intercourse with; to fuck; -- usually used with the male as a subject. Considered vulgar or obscene. [PJC]

1.  To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano. [1913 Webster]

2.  To have sexual intercourse; to fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene. [PJC]

1.  A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. [1913 Webster]
"Many a stiff thwack, many a bang." [1913 Webster]

2.  The loud sound produced by a sudden concussion or explosion. [1913 Webster]

3.  A surge of pleasure; a thrill; -- usually used in the phrase get a bang out of; as, I always get a bang out of watching an ice skater do a quadruple jump. [PJC]

4.  An exclamation point; -- used in verbal descriptions of text, in printing and in computer technology; as, his email address is tom bang stanford dot edu (i.e. tom!stanford.edu). [PJC]

5.  An instance of sexual intercourse; a fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene. [PJC]

   To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). [1913 Webster]
"His hair banged even with his eyebrows." [1913 Webster]

   The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn; -- usually used in the plural; as, her bangs came down almost to her eyes. [1913 Webster]
"His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang." [1913 Webster]

   See Bhang. [1913 Webster]

bang, n., v., & adv.
--n.
1 a a loud short sound. b an explosion. c the report of a gun.
2 a a sharp blow. b the sound of this.
3 esp. US a fringe of hair cut straight across the forehead.
4 coarse sl. an act of sexual intercourse.
5 sl. a drug injection (cf. BHANG).
--v.
1 tr. & intr. strike or shut noisily (banged the door shut; banged on the table).
2 tr. & intr. make or cause to make the sound of a blow or an explosion.
3 tr. esp. US cut (hair) in a bang.
4 coarse sl. a intr. have sexual intercourse. b tr. have sexual intercourse with.
--adv.
1 with a bang or sudden impact.
2 colloq. exactly (bang in the middle).

Idiom:
bang off Brit. sl. immediately. bang on Brit. colloq. exactly right. bang-up US sl. first-class, excellent (esp. bang-up job). go bang
1 (of a door etc.) shut noisily.
2 explode.
3 colloq. be suddenly destroyed (bang went their chances). go with a bang go successfully.

Etymology:
16th c.: perh. f. Scand.

VB  punish, chastise, chasten, castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice, cowhide, lambaste, visit upon, pay, pay out, serve out, do for, make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of, have a rod in pickle for, give it one, strike, deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite, slap, slap the face, smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet, thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor, lace, lace one's jacket, dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue, beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly, give a black eye, tar and feather, pelt, stone, lapidate, masthead, keelhaul, execute, bring to the block, bring to the gallows, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate, hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter, shoot, decimate, burn, break on the wheel, crucify, empale, impale, flay, lynch, electrocute, gas, send to the gas chamber, torture, put on, put to the rack, picket, banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize, rusticate, drum out, dismiss, disbar, disbench, strike off the roll, unfrock, post, suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment, be flogged, be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty, be hanged, come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes, be rightly served, be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning, face the firing squad.

N  impulse, sudden thought, impromptu, improvisation, inspiration, flash, spurt, improvisatore, creature of impulse, extemporaneous, impulsive, indeliberate, snap, improvised, improvisate, improvisatory, unpremeditated, unmeditated, improvise, unprompted, unguided, natural, unguarded, spontaneous, instinctive, extempore, extemporaneously, offhand, impromptu, a limproviste, improviso, on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion, impulse, impulsion, impetus, momentum, push, pulsion, thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost, throw, explosion, propulsion, percussion, concussion, collision, occursion, clash, encounter, cannon, carambole, appulse, shock, crash, bump, impact, elan, charge, beating, blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab, fillip, slam, bang, hit, whack, thwack, cuff, squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration, ruade, arietation, cut, thrust, lunge, yerk, carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe, hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail, ram, rammer, battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat, cant hook, cudgel, ax, dynamics, seismometer, accelerometer, earthquake detector, impelling, impulsive, impellent, booming, dynamic, dynamical, impelled, a hit, a very palpable hit.

VB  flash on the mind, say what comes uppermost, improvise, extemporize, give an impetus, impel, push, start, give a start to, set going, drive, urge, boom, thrust, prod, foin, cant, elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter, run against, bump against, butt against, knock one's head against, run one's head against, impinge, boost, bunt, carom, clip y, fan, fan out, jab, plug, strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash, punch, thwack, whack, hit hard, strike hard, swap, batter, dowse, baste, pelt, patter, buffet, belabor, fetch one a blow, poke at, pink, lunge, yerk, kick, calcitrate, butt, strike at, whip, come into a collision, enter into collision, collide, sideswipe, foul, fall foul of, run foul of, telescope, throw.

VB  rap, snap, tap, knock, ping, click, clash, crack, crackle, crash, pop, slam, bang, blast, boom, clap, clang, clack, whack, wham, brustle, burst on the ear, crepitate, rump, blow up, blow, detonate.

bang out, bang up, big bang, big bang theory, slam bang