Definition: banging

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

banging
     adj : being or resembling the noise of things striking or bumping
           together repeatedly
     n 1: a continuing very loud noise
     2: the act of subjecting to strong attack [syn: battering]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Banging \Bang"ing\, a.
   Huge; great in size. [Colloq.] --Forby.
Bang \Bang\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banged; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Banging.] [Icel. banga to hammer; akin to Dan. banke to
   beat, Sw. b[*a]ngas to be impetuous, G. bengel club, clapper
   of a bell.]
   1. To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence;
      to handle roughly.

            The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.
                                                  --Shak.

   2. 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.