BANGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does banging mean? 

• BANGING (noun)
  The noun BANGING has 2 senses:

1. a continuing very loud noise

2. the act of subjecting to strong attack

  Familiarity information: BANGING used as a noun is rare.

• BANGING (adjective)
  The adjective BANGING has 1 sense:

1. (used informally) very large

  Familiarity information: BANGING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A continuing very loud noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("banging" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of subjecting to strong attack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

banging; battering

Hypernyms ("banging" is a kind of...):

combat; fight; fighting; scrap (the act of fighting; any contest or struggle)

• BANGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used informally) very large

Synonyms:

banging; humongous; thumping; walloping; whopping

Context example:

a thumping loss

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

The doors were in constant banging, the stairs were never at rest, nothing was done without a clatter, nobody sat still, and nobody could command attention when they spoke.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was different from the dance-hall piano-banging and blatant brass bands he had heard.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The booms were tearing at the blocks, the rudder was banging to and fro, and the whole ship creaking, groaning, and jumping like a manufactory.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I ran sideling upon it, that way and this, as fast as I could, banging the proper keys with my two sticks, and made a shift to play a jig, to the great satisfaction of both their majesties; but it was the most violent exercise I ever underwent; and yet I could not strike above sixteen keys, nor consequently play the bass and treble together, as other artists do; which was a great disadvantage to my performance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Warning signs that it might be a more serious problem include: • Problems in more than one setting (at school, at home, with peers) • Changes in appetite or sleep • Social withdrawal or fear of things he or she did not used to be not afraid of • Returning to behaviors more common in younger children, such as bedwetting • Signs of being upset, such as sadness or tearfulness • Signs of self-destructive behavior, such as head-banging or suddenly getting hurt often • Repeated thoughts of death

(Child Mental Health, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

I have said this was the worst thing possible for me, for helpless as she looked in this situation, with the canvas cracking like cannon and the blocks trundling and banging on the deck, she still continued to run away from me, not only with the speed of the current, but by the whole amount of her leeway, which was naturally great.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)