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slam-bang en · ADJ
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(not-comparable, onomatopoeic) Noisy, raucous.
Their arguments weren't pleasant to hear or to watch, but they weren't yet having the all-out, slam-bang quarrels they would have when I was older.
2001, V. C. Andrews, Cinnamon, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 188:Fifteen years of marriage in full would cry out for a slam-bang celebration.
2003, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Christmas, Present, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 2:At a signal from Horko's box there was an all-out, slam-bang, grand salute of the guns and with it a pounding of the deep liquid bass drums.
1959, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King, Penguin Classics, published 1996, →ISBN, page 173:
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(not-comparable) Violent, forceful.
The waiter took my order, a slam-bang something with eggs and pancakes: enough cholesterol to power the whole state of Idaho.
2007, John Dunning, The Bookwoman's Last Fling: A Cliff Janeway Novel, Simon and Schuster,, →ISBN, page 2:"If you had led the rough, tough, slam-bang, every-man-for-himself life I have, you wouldn't be frightened of gorillas...."
1932, P. G. Wodehouse, Monkey Business:The boy seemed streetwise yet clearly unaware that this was an officer whose slam-bang interrogation methods were a legend.
2004, Lindsey Davis, Scandal Takes a Holiday, Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page 4:Temporary Agency begins with a tale of demonic possession and adolescent crushes and ends with a slam-bang, all-out global confrontation between the forces of good and evil.
2000, Linda Parent Lesher, The Best Novels of the Nineties: A Reader's Guide, McFarland & Company,, →ISBN, page 99:
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(not-comparable) Impressive, exciting.
2004 March 18–24, Jack Harvey (pseudonym), "Once Again, Oscar Is King Of The Rings", in The Onion, available in Embedded in America, →ISBN, page 114,
After this slam-bang production, the next is sure to be a huge letdown.
"I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman."
1961, Joseph Heller, chapter 2, in Catch-22:An eentsy-weentsy office with a slam-bang T1 connection that she couldn't figure out how to hook up to her slam-bang computer that she couldn't figure out how to plug in.
2005, John Reed, The Whole, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 43:
slam-bang en · ADV
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(not-comparable) Shot or hit with a noise.
19th cent., Robert Montgomery Bird, Nick of the Woods, 1967 Rowman & Littlefield edition, →ISBN, page 48,
Well! as soon as I jumped out of his way, bang went his piece, and bang went another, let fly by an Injun;—down went the Major, shot right through the hips, slam-bang.
slam-bang en · NOUN
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(onomatopoeic) Noisy activity.
1985, Paul Theroux, "Introduction", to, Henry James, What Maisie Knew, Penguin Classics, →ISBN, page 13,
But James in describing the slam-bang of her upbringing has given us every reason for her turning out crazy, vengeful or anti-social.
From far down the hall came the staccato notes of a new term, the slam-bang of teachers flinging open cabinets, filling trash cans, stapling lists to bulletin boards, dragging desks into optimistic configurations.
2005, Monica Wood, Any Bitter Thing: A Novel, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 71:
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slam-bang en · VERB
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(informal, transitive) To beat noisily.
1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He was forever slam-banging the microphone stand & twisting the cord around himself.
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