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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whang.

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Examples

  • The only other option I can imagine is that instead of shaking it off, there is a class of men who kneel down after urinating and wipe their whing-whangs on the urinal, just like someone wiping a paintbrush off on the edge of the can.

    Your Morning TMFI zoethe 2004

  • I pull the trigger and a bullet whangs through the roof of the bus, followed immediately by three or four more.

    Six Bad Things Huston, Charlie 2005

  • I heard Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" played by a series of whangs and whoops and whizzles as though I were surrounded by Casio synthesizers having a family reunion.

    Boing Boing: December 30, 2001 - January 5, 2002 Archives 2001

  • Stewart, with his own appetite satisfied, was acting lackey to the gentlemen in the byre -- fetching out cogies of milk and whangs of bear-meal bannock, and the most crisp piquant white cheese ever I put tooth to.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • The automatic piano in the penny arcade whangs dolorously into a forgotten tango.

    A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

  • He gave a chance every over as regular as clockwork, and it was always missed, and then he would make up for it with two or three tremendous whangs -- a safe four every time.

    Tales of St. Austin's 1928

  • And he declared I was in error in saying "The goose hangs high," as that was merely a vulgar corruption for "The goose whangs high," the "whanging" being the call of the wild geese high in the air when the weather is settled and fair.

    The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

  • A settler might be unfortunate enough not to possess a gun, but there was none who did not carry a moccasin-awl attached to the strap of his shot-pouch, a roll of buckskin for patches and some deerskin thongs, or whangs, for sewing.

    A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

  • As I sewed the whangs through the rips and hastily patched the holes I could see her worriment was increasing.

    A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

  • He had goods second-hand and new, fish-hooks and marbles, pot-metal knives with brass handles, slate-pencils that would "break square," which were greatly desired by all, skate-straps, and buckskin whangs.

    Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry Ralph Connor 1898

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