bang | Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Bang
·noun A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. II. Bang ·noun The sound produced by a sudden concussion...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
to bang
To beat. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bang
A mixture of opium, hemp-leaves, and tobacco, of an intoxicating quality, chewed and smoked by the M...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Slam-bang
·adv With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
bang up
(WHIP.) Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bang straw
A nick name for a thresher, but applied to all the servants of a farmer. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
suffolk bang
A very poor and hard kind of cheese, which was indignantly refused in our North Sea fleet. It was, a...

The Sailor's Word-Book
slap-bang shop
A petty cook's shop, where there is no credit given, but what is had must be paid DOWN WITH THE READ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bang-tail muster
See quotation. 1887. W. S. S. Tyrwhitt, `The New Churn in the Queensland Bush,'p. 61: «Every third...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris