Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With a slap and a bang; hence, suddenly; violently; with a sudden noisy dash; headlong; all at once: as, to go slap-bang through the ice or through a window. Also
slam-bang . - Violent; dashing. Also
slam-bang . - noun A low eating-house.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
directly orimmediately - adverb in a
violent orsudden ornoisy manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a violent or sudden or noisy manner
- adverb directly or immediately
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Examples
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He broadly outlined possibilities and ramifications, and I personally think this is a better strategy than ducking out silently, whereby his unforunate replacement might step slap-bang into a huge flame of layoff criticism??
Griffin Uses Hand Picked Media Opportunity to Warn of Layoffs - NASA Watch 2009
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That game reached its conclusion slap-bang in the middle of a church service I was at on Sunday afternoon, so the entire front row had to pretend to listen earnestly to the vicar while guiltily shielding their iPhones from his eyeline.
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Anton is obviously involved in the case and they have been given a date that is slap-bang in the middle of our pre-season from my point of view and Anton's point of view.
John Terry trial date will disrupt QPR's build-up, says Mark Hughes 2012
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The ambulance rush to Great Ormond Street hospital sent us slap-bang into that other world; the one you just don't know at all.
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The ambulance rush to Great Ormond Street hospital sent us slap-bang into that other world; the one you just don't know at all.
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This inaugural exhibition in the Open Eye's new gallery, purpose-built slap-bang in Liverpool's Waterfront cultural quarter, features Mitch Epstein's momentous photo-documents of the American Dream gone to hell.
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Founded in 1962, and now housed in a converted Bauhaus cinema in the smart neighbourhood of Charlottenburg, the Schaubühne developed a reputation for political drama in much the same way that London's Royal Court, slap-bang in the middle of Chelsea, became the home of Britain's kitchen-sink playwrights.
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It seems to be set in stone and it's slap-bang in the middle of our pre-season operation when ideally I would want my player available.
John Terry trial date will disrupt QPR's build-up, says Mark Hughes 2012
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A stone's throw from St John but a world away in attitude, the luxury hotel chain comes to London, with 192 rooms slap-bang on Leicester Square.
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I regret to this day living in Bedford Place and environs all those years ago, right slap-bang under the 'bury' bit of Bloomsbury, and never really appreciating the literary nature of my surroundings.
Bookhound finds... 2008
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