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BANG ON

Specialty Definition: BANG ON

DomainDefinition

Computing

Bang on vt. To stress-test a piece of hardware or software: "I banged on the new version of the simulator all day yesterday and it didn't crash once. I guess it is ready for release." The term pound on is synonymous. Source: Jargon File.

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Crosswords: BANG ON

English words defined with "BANG ON": bang, bash, beltknocksmash. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BANG ON": pound on. (references)

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Modern Usage: BANG ON

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Bang bang on the door (Love Shack; performing artist: B-52'S)

Gang bang on these streets (Can't Nobody; performing artist: Nate Dogg)

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Commercial Usage: BANG ON

DomainTitle

Music

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Spoken Usage: BANG ON

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Michael J. Fox

Well, I partied a lot when I was younger. And that was just, again, having to do with this kind of this imposter syndrome any minute someone is going to bang on the door and tell me good-bye. So I thought, well, I'll just be drunk when they get here.

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Expressions: BANG ON

Expressions using "BANG ON": bang on smth. bang on time. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BANG ON

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bang on the door

51
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Modern Translation: BANG ON

Language Translations for "BANG ON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

gegen etw. schlagen (bang on smth.). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

angbay onay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

aceptado (accepted, admitted, approved, digested, granted, taken). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tamamen doğru (quite the thing), tamamen (absolutely, all, altogether, at large, bang, chock, clean, clear, completely, dead, definitely, downright, entirely, exactly, fair, fully, heart and soul, hollow, holo-, hopelessly, in the highest degree, in toto, neck and crop, off, out and out, outright, perfectly, plenty, precious, properly, quite, richly, roundly, sheer, simply, staring, stark, thoroughly, thro, through, through and through, thru, thru and thru, up to the hilt, utterly, well, whole, wholly, wide), tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), tümüyle doğru, şüphesiz doğru. (various references)

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Anagrams: BANG ON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-g-n-n-o"

-1 letter: bogan, goban.

-2 letters: agon, anon, bang, bong, nona.

-3 letters: abo, ago, bag, ban, boa, bog, gab, gan, goa, gob, nab, nag, nan, nob, nog.

-4 letters: ab, ag, an, ba, bo, go, na, no, on.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-g-n-n-o"
 

+2 letters: aborning, bignonia.

 

+3 letters: abounding, bandwagon, beaconing, bemoaning, bignonias, blazoning, hamboning, jawboning, obtaining.

 

+4 letters: abandoning, abnegation, absconding, ballooning, bandwagons, bayoneting, begroaning, blazonings, botanising, botanizing, broadening, confabbing, hobnailing, jawbonings, longbowman, nonbanking, nonbearing.

 

+5 letters: abnegations, abominating, ambitioning, balloonings, bankrolling, bayonetting, bombinating, brominating, carbonating, carbonizing, concubinage, consignable, emblazoning, interrobang, panbroiling, pawnbroking, reobtaining, snowballing, subpoenaing, tobogganing, unignorable, vagabonding.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Spoken
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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