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Definition: Bang-up |
Bang-upAdjective1. (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bang-up" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
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Literature | Bang-up or Slap-bang. First-rate, thumping, as a "thumping legacy." It is a slang punning synonym of thumping or striking. Slap-bang is double bang, or doubly striking. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: Bang-upSynonyms: bully (adj), corking (adj), cracking (adj), dandy (adj), great (adj), groovy (adj), keen (adj), neat (adj), nifty (adj), not bad(p) (adj), peachy (adj), slap-up (adj), smashing (adj), swell (adj). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Oh gee, thanks Dave, bang-up job so far. Extortion, coercion; you'll pardon me if I ask you to kiss my pucker. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) | |
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bang-up": bang-up-to-date, bang-up-to-the-minute. | |
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| Language | Translations for "bang-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 第一流. (various references) | |
Hungarian | pazar (baronial, gorgeous, luxurious, magnificent, opulent, prodigal, profuse, slap up, slap-up, smashing, sumptuous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ang-upbay.(various references) | |
Russian | превосходный (admirable, beautiful, capital, clinking, divine, excellent, fine, grand, groovy, hunky-dory, jim-dandy, nailing, once-stellar, palmary, posh, prime, smashing, spanking, superb, superlative, surpassing, tiptop, top-hole, topnotch, top-notch, transcendent, unexceptionable, unexceptional), первоклассный (capital, champion, classy, first class, first rate, first-rate, gilt-edged, hunky-dory, lummy, pucka, pukka, splendid, sterling, super, tiptop, top flight, topflight, top-flight, top-hole, top-line, topnotch, top-notch, top-quality). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lạ thường (extraordinary, monumental, novel, supernormal), chiến (bonzer, elegant, famous, famously, hunky-dory, magnificent, slap-up, smashing, solid, spanking, super). (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Bang-up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bangum, kang-lu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-n-p-u" | |
-2 letters: bang, bung, gaun, guan, pang, puna, pung. | |
-3 letters: bag, ban, bap, bug, bun, gab, gan, gap, gnu, gun, nab, nag, nap, nub, pan, pub, pug, pun. | |
-4 letters: ab, ag, an, ba, na, nu, pa, un, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-n-p-u" | |
+3 letters: upbearing. | |
+4 letters: impugnable, subpenaing, upbraiding. | |
+5 letters: bankrupting, parbuckling, subpoenaing, subsampling, ungraspable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6E 67 2D 75 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101110 01100111 00101101 01110101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a n g - u p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006E 0067 002D 0075 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36678073158782 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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