slam-bang

1. not comparableonomatopoeicNoisy, raucous.

   Fifteen years of marriage in full would cry out for a slam-bang celebration.

   2003, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Christmas, Present, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 2

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   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

   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

2. not comparableViolent, forceful.

   "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

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   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

   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

   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

3. not comparableImpressive, 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.

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   "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

1. not comparableShot 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.

plural slam-bangs

1. onomatopoeicNoisy 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.

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   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

present singular third person slam-bangs · participle present slam-banging · participle past slam-banged · past slam-banged

1. informaltransitiveTo 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.