Meanings
adverbslap-bang (comparative more slap-bang, superlative most slap-bang)
comparative more slap-bang · superlative most slap-bang
- Directly or immediately.
You'll see the tower slap-bang in front of you when you come out of the station.
1 more example
It was a stormy day and it was slap-bang in the middle of the fair weather season.
Synonyms: smack
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbDirectly or immediately.
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adverbin a violent or sudden or noisy manner
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian направо, непосредствено
- направо (napravo)directly
- непосредствено (neposredstveno)directly
- внезапно (vnezapno)suddenly, immediately
- неочаквано (neočakvano)suddenly, immediately
- шумно (šumno)violently, noisy
- с пълна сила (s pălna sila)violently, noisy
French en plein
- en pleindirectly
German unmittelbar, ruckzuck
- unmittelbardirectly
- ruckzucksuddenly, immediately
- ratzfatzsuddenly, immediately
- klatsch-bumviolently, noisy
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APA
slap-bang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slap-bang
MLA
“slap-bang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slap-bang. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slap-bang,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slap-bang.
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