slam-bang adj.
1. (also slam bam) vigorous, energetic.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 12 Aug. n.p.: If you are so foolish as to think that being an officer in an old slambang Company will cover your moral defects [etc]. | |
| Richmond Dispatch (VA) 1 June 4/1: A baggage-man [...] handling a trunk in the usual slam-bang manner [...] threw it down with such a force as to explode a pistol within. | |
 | W. Eau Claire Argus 4 Jan. 3/6: The singular grace and dexterity characteristic of New York waiters of the impulsive or slam-bang school. | |
| Clearfield Republican (PA) 26 July 4/1: The Evangelist [...] denounces the ‘slambang’ style of writing and speaking. | |
| Record-Argus (Greenville, PA) 21 Aug. 6/2: He plays [piano] in the slam-bang, war-whoop style. | |
| Cincinnati Enquirier (OH) 14 Feb. 9/7: The husband [...] opens the door boldly; walks in with a slam-bang air. | |
| Fayette Co. Leader (IA) 22 May 1/4: The Decorah Republican designates our manner of expressing what we have to say as a ‘slam-bang’ way. It is in error; we do not slam, neither do we bang. | |
| Iola Register (KS) 12 Jan. 4/3: Some whoop-em-up, slam-bang, barn-storming outfit. | |
| Nebraska State Jrnl Lincoln, NE) 2 Jan. 37/2: His slam-bang, devil-may-care, go-ahead wooing receives a disastrous shock. | |
| ‘Blue Blood’ in One Basket (1947) 306: Molly Regan! A hearty, slam-bang, broad-breasted, light-footed creature. | |
| People, Yes 31: The bargains brandished with slambang hoots and yells. | |
| N.Y. Herald Trib. Mag. 20 Oct. 15/2: He does — just as the heavies start to drag the girl away — and now we are into the ‘middle action,’ which is another term for a slam-bang fight. | |
| Henderson The Rain King 162: There was an all-out, slam-bang, grand salute of the guns. | |
| One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 75: All the slam bam jam fuggin this daddio kin ever do jess fine by me. | |
| Dear ‘Herm’ 163: Well, that made Flo blow a gasket and before you know it we are having a slam-bang rubarb. | |
| (con. 1940s–60s) ‘The Party’ in Eve. Sun Turned Crimson (1980) in Huncke Reader (1998) 173: Our making an exit [...] helped avert what might very easily have been a slam-bang free-for-all. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Indep. Rev. 1 Oct. 15: It’s a slam-bang, hit-filled finale, [...] her voice matching the band in full fury. | |
| Portable Promised Land (ms.) 19: He liked that quickfast heat, that fast food, that slambang dunk. |
2. (orig. US) exciting, first-rate, excellent.
| Anything For a Laugh 190: The slam-bang, wisecracking school of humor that characterizes the radio programs. | |
| Affairs of Gidget 76: What a fabulous, sensational, slam-bang evening. | |
| Running Dog (1992) 139: Isn’t the whole thing just a slam-bang corporate adventure? |