slam-bang

adj 3adv 1noun 1verb 1

Definitions

adj

1

Noisy, raucous.

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.

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.

2

Violent, forceful

"If you had led the rough, tough, slam-bang, every-man-for-himself life I have, you wouldn't be frightened of gorillas...."

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.

3

Impressive, exciting.

"I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman."

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.

adv

1

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.

noun

1

Noisy activity.

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.

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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