Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To strike so as to produce a loud, reverberant noise.
- intransitive verb To produce a loud, reverberant noise.
- noun A loud, reverberant noise.
- noun A thong or whip of hide or leather.
- noun A lashing blow, as of a whip.
- noun The sound of such a blow.
- noun Vulgar Slang The penis.
- transitive verb To beat or whip with a thong.
- transitive verb To beat with a sharp blow or blows.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thong, especially a leathern thong.
- noun A tough leather, such as is used for thongs, belt-lacing, etc. It is usually made of calf's hide, but sometimes of eelskin or the hide of a dog, woodchuck, racoon, etc.
- To beat or bang; thwack; whack; flog; also, to throw with violence.
- To cut in large slices or strips; slice.
- To make or give out a banging noise.
- noun A blow or thwack; a whack; a beating or banging; a bang
- noun A cut; a piece; a slice; a chunk.
- noun Formerly, in Maine and some other parts of New England, a house-cleaning party; a gathering of neighbors to aid one of their number in cleaning house.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. A leather thong.
- transitive verb Scot. & Dial. Eng. To beat; thrash; bang; also, to throw, hurl, or fling about, violently.
- transitive verb Scot. To slice, esp. in large pieces; to chop.
- noun Dial. or Colloq. A blow; whack.
- noun Scot. & Dial. Eng. A large piece or slice; chunk.
- noun Local, U. S. Formerly, a house-cleaning party.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang A
penis . - verb To make a noise such as something moving quickly through the air.
- verb informal, transitive To
throw with a rapidslamming motion. - verb US, slang To whack or beat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb attack forcefully
- verb propel or hit with force
- verb beat with force
- noun the act of hitting vigorously
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Even those evil days of New England households, the annual house-cleaning, were robbed of some of their dismal terrors by what was known as a "whang," a gathering of a few friendly women neighbors to assist one another in that dire time, and thus speed and shorten the hours of misery.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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All of a sudden, on a murky night, a light would hop up, right under our bows, almost, and an agonized voice, with the backwoods 'whang' to it, would wail out --
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In the old days, when Clete and I walked a beat on Canal and in the Quarter, a cop in trouble or chasing a perp would whang his baton on the pavement or a curb as a distress signal to other cops.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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In the old days, when Clete and I walked a beat on Canal and in the Quarter, a cop in trouble or chasing a perp would whang his baton on the pavement or a curb as a distress signal to other cops.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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In the old days, when Clete and I walked a beat on Canal and in the Quarter, a cop in trouble or chasing a perp would whang his baton on the pavement or a curb as a distress signal to other cops.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I heard a shell whang dead center into his helmet and ricochet inside.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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In the old days, when Clete and I walked a beat on Canal and in the Quarter, a cop in trouble or chasing a perp would whang his baton on the pavement or a curb as a distress signal to other cops.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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OTAY so i sweeps the oooshy grey goop into a pan wipe the dirt of wiff my sleeve plop the mess inta the cavernous gaping skull crater whang the parts ob skull into place
Dats one small step fur me and… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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A good source to buy some organic astralagus/whang-ki: Mountain Rose Herbs.
Archive 2008-11-01 GreenFertility 2008
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A good source to buy some organic astralagus/whang-ki: Mountain Rose Herbs.
Astragalus Root Can Prevent Telomere Shortening GreenFertility 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word whang
House-cleaning party.
February 9, 2011
qms commented on the word whang
Your faux pas I'll try to explain:
When somebody says up in Maine,
"We're inviting a gang
To the house for a whang,"
Don't go with a whip and a chain.
December 6, 2014