bang up

adjective

Good, superior, excellent.

“He's doing a bang up job.”

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dub upsmash upsmashimpregnateknock upprang up
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Meanings

adjectivebang up (not comparable)
  1. idiomaticnot comparableoften hyphenatedGood, superior, excellent.

    He's doing a bang up job.

verbbang up (third-person singular simple present bangs up, present participle banging up, simple past and past participle banged up)

present singular third person bangs up · participle present banging up · participle past banged up · past banged up

  1. informaltransitiveTo damage.

    He banged up his new car last night.

  2. informaltransitiveTo put someone in prison, or into their individual cell.

    He was so drunk that the police banged him up for the night.

    1 more example

    A combination of having too many plates spinning, ill-health, being banged up for debt (1822-23) and bankruptcy all served to impede James' progress, although the Central Junction Railway - a 16-mile horse-drawn tramway between Stratford and Moreton (Gloucestershire) - did materialise in 1826.

    2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56

    Synonyms: dub up

  3. intransitiveslangTo inject a recreational drug.

    I knew some fellows who banged up, I mean heroin, but I kind of stayed away from it.

    1971, Army Digest, volume 26, page 31

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo put someone in prison, or into their individual cell.

Similar
dub up

More synonyms by meaning

verbdamage or destroy as if by violence

Similar
smash upsmash
Broader
damage

verbmake pregnant

Similar
impregnateknock upprang up
Broader
inseminatefecundatefertilize
Also see
bastilledub upimpregnateimprisonknock upsmashsmash up

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

French démolir, endommager
  • démolirto damage
  • endommagerto damage
  • flinguerto damage
  • abimerto damage
German spitzenmäßig, erstklassig
  • spitzenmäßigsuperior, excellent
  • erstklassigsuperior, excellent
  • zerdeppernto damage
  • demolierento damage
Hungarian bomba jó, bombasztikus
  • bomba jósuperior, excellent
  • bombasztikussuperior, excellent
Polish świetny, zarąbisty
  • świetnysuperior, excellent
  • zarąbistysuperior, excellent
  • supersuperior, excellent
  • ekstrasuperior, excellent
  • megasuperior, excellent
  • rozwalaćto damage
  • rozwalićto damage
  • uszkadzaćto damage
  • uszkodzićto damage
  • stłucto damage
  • rozbijaćto damage
  • rozbićto damage
Portuguese danificar, estragar
  • danificarto damage
  • estragarto damage
Russian разби́ть, разру́шить
  • разби́ть (razbítʹ)to damage
  • разру́шить (razrúšitʹ)to damage
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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