banging n.
1. a military defeat.
![[Ind]](/static/img/flags/ind.png "India") | Hicky’s Bengal Gaz. 21-28 Apr. n.p.: [O]ur brave General is gone to Coromandel, / To give Hyder Ally a pretty tight banging. |
2. (US) sexual intercourse [bang v.1 (2a)].
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Erotic Muse (1992) 175: For what are you going to do for your banging / When your Lulu’s dead and gone? | |
| (ref. to late 19C) Amer. Madam (1981) 137: A bored wife who no longer saw anything in banging but habit and duty. | |
| in Erotic Muse (1992) 175: What’ll we do for banging / When Lulu’s dead and gone? | |
 | ‘Chickenhawk’ at www.cultdeadcow.com 🌐 She seemed to have lost a lot of her fight after this last vicious banging and humiliating orgasm. |
3. (US gay) among lesbians, genital-to-genital frottage.
| (con. 1950s) Boots of Leather (2014) 199: The predominant form of [woman-to-woman] lovemaking [...] was what the clinicians called ‘tribadism’ or what most narrators for theis period call ‘friction’. Another narrator rembers women form this period calling it ‘banging’. |
4. (US black) indulging in multiple rape or, if the woman is willing, in an orgy [abbr. gang-banging n.1 ].
| Black Talk. |
5. (US black) fighting, living the life of a gangster [abbr. gang-banging n.2 ].
| Do or Die (1992) 20: Do your mama get on you about ‘bangin’? | |
| Monster (1994) 12: Bangin’ ain’t no part-time thang, it’s full-time, it’s a career. | |
| Source Aug. 148: Gangbangin’ was all around him for as long as he can remember. His family, all his brothers and his friends, were bangin’. |
6. (UK black) a (punishment) beating.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Dirty South 56: If we do a banging again then we’ll pull on balaclavas. |