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Definition: Slap-bang |
Slap-bangAdverb1. At excessive speeds; "yachts ran slap-bang into the convoy at 15 knots an hour". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slap-bang" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Slap-bang in sport, means that the gun was discharged incessantly; it went slap here and bang there. As a term of laudation it means "very dashing," both words being playful synonyms of "dashing," the repetition being employed to give intensity. Slap-bang, here we are again, means, we have "popped" in again without ceremony. Pop, slap, bang, and dash are interchangeable. Dickens uses the word to signify a low eating-house. "They lived in the same street, walked to town every morning at the same hour, dined at the same slap-bang every day." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Haste | Hastily, precipitately; Adjective: helter-skelter, hurry-skurry, holus-bolus; slapdash, slap-bang; full-tilt, full drive; heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Slap-bang |
| Specialty definitions using "slap-bang": SLAP-BANG SHOP. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Fisher, Carroll in a slap-bang absurdity, The Lobster. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fisher and Carroll in a slap-bang absurdity, The Lobster. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Slap-bang" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Slap-bang" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "slap-bang"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 掴轰隆. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 석 때림 강타. (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | kione er oai. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ap-bangslay thình lình (bounce, sudden, unexpected), bừa; liều lĩnh, đột nhiên mạnh mẽ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-g-l-n-p-s" | |
-2 letters: lagans, pagans, pangas. | |
-3 letters: alang, alans, albas, algas, angas, anlas, baals, balas, balsa, banal, bangs, basal, galas, glans, lagan, nasal, pagan, panga, pangs, plans, salpa, sanga, slang, spang. | |
-4 letters: aals, abas, agas, alan, alas, alba, albs, alga, alps, anal, anas, anga, ansa, baal, baas, bags, bals, bang, bans, baps, gabs, gala, gals, gaps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-g-l-n-p-s" | |
+3 letters: ungraspable. | |
+4 letters: backslapping. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 61 70 2D 62 61 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01100001 01110000 00101101 01100010 01100001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l a p - b a n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0061 0070 002D 0062 0061 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537867821568678073 |
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