Bang: Definition and part of speech

Bang

  1. n. Alt. of Bangue
  2. v. t. To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
  3. v. t. 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.
  4. v. i. 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.
  5. n. A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.
  6. n. The sound produced by a sudden concussion.
  7. v. t. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).
  8. n. The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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