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bang out en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (slang) Someone who works or studies seemingly way too much.
   • Jamie finished the paper and did all the homework. He's such a bang out.

Forms

bang out en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Meanings

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To do (something) quickly, in a slipshod, or unprofessional manner, especially performing or composing music or a piece of writing.
   • I've got this paper due tomorrow, but I think I can bang it out in one night.
   • They bang out bubblegum punk that couldn't be more reductive if Joey Ramone himself were hovering over their shoulders with his Gabba Gabba Hey! sign. 2001 May 25, Caroline Sullivan, “Bubblegum punk from the Donnas”, in The Guardian:
   • Punters put up with all this for the thrill of seeing someone perform live – not for a ghoulish sanitised projection, soullessly banging out the hits. 2019 February 24, Barbara Ellen, “Amy Winehouse could belt out a tune – her naff hologram can’t”, in The Guardian:
   • The band were banging out a vaguely recognisable version of the Star Spangled Banner.
2. (intransitive, slang) To eject.
   • The pilot promptly banged out and the aircraft flew almost as far as the airfield, eventually crashing into a farmer's field. 2010, Tony Doyle, Flying at the Edge, →ISBN, page 253:
3. (UK, transitive) To celebrate (a fellow printing or newspaper industry worker) to mark their completion of an apprenticeship or their retirement by (formerly) hitting metal furniture in the printing room or (more recently) hitting one's desk in the newsroom.
   • As Hill left, his colleagues on the foreign desk started to bang him out – the traditional printers' farewell that involves thumping the desk as loudly as possible. According to reports the whole of the Telegraph's vast multimedia newsroom, said to be the largest in Europe, was shaking as staff banged out yet another colleague. 2008 June 26, “Hill and Dryden off with a bang”, in The Guardian:
4. (transitive) To beat up (someone).

Forms

Translations (10)

de zusammenstöpseln (to do something quickly) · fr bâcler (to do something quickly) · pl zrobić szybko i niedokładnie (to do something quickly) · de raushauen (to do something quickly) · pl robić szybko i niedokładnie (to do something quickly) · de herauswürgen (to do something quickly) · fr torcher (to do something quickly) · fr traiter par dessous la jambe (to do something quickly) · es chapucear (to do something quickly) · de zusammenschustern (to do something quickly)

bang out en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

Clipping of bang out of order

Meanings

1. (UK, not-comparable, slang) Completely unacceptable.