banging adj.
1. big, great in size.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 207: He drubb’d a banging great Scotch drover, / A raw-bon’d loon, so large and strong. | |
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd edn) n.p.: Banging. Great; a fine banging boy. | |
| How to Grow Rich III ii: There came [...] as fine a large banging hare as ever you clapt your two most gracious eyes upon. | |
| Burlesque Homer (4th edn) I 246: A great big banging potlid. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| ‘Two Parsons’ in Poetical Vagaries 113: Adam and Eve [...] They sought the Fig, To cool their blushes, with its banging leaves. | |
| Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. | |
| Life of an Actor II iv: Oh, what a banging house we shall have! | |
| Dict. of Provincialisms 7/2: Banging [...] Huge. | |
| Hillingdon Hall II 311: A great banging hare bounced out before him. | |
| Young Tom Hall (1926) 162: A great, banging bright-brown fox darted across the junction of the rides. | |
| Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. | |
 | Daily Tel. 31 Aug. n.p.: They could win it with a great banging majority [F&H]. | |
| Taunton Courier 26 Apr. 10/2: Unusually large, as a banging child. |
2. (orig. US black) popular.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Source Oct. 35: It’s a party joint ’cause that’s what’s bangin’ right now. |
3. a general term of admiration: excellent, first-rate, wonderful.
| Source Sept. 66: He let me hear some of his new stuff the other day. Shit was banging. | |
| College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Bangin’ (adj.) 1. Of exceptional quality; cool; great; phat! 2. Fun or exciting. 3. Satisfying. | |
| Guardian G2 3 Aug. 3: They was ... the nuts [...] large, sick, banging. | |
| Campus Sl. Apr. 1: bangin’ – great, awesome: The atmosphere in the Dean Dome was bangin’. Attractive to the opposite sex: All the boys asked Laura to the prom because they thought she was bangin’. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | IOL News 9 Nov. 🌐 It’s a banging song. | |
| This Is How You Lose Her 36: Ain’t nothing like a fifteen-year-old with a banging body. | |
| Sellout (2016) 203: It was like [...] when you enter a banging-ass house party and shit’s bumping. | |
| theculturetrip.com ‘Guide to London Slang 10 Jan. 🌐 Bangin — sick/good. | |
| What They Was 31: Look at that banging view fam. |
4. intense, substantial.
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Bloody January 87: [He] woke up with a banging hangover and an empty half bottle beside him. |