bing-bang n.
1. a repeated heavy thump or a continued banging noise; also as v., to hit repeatedly.
![]() | ‘His Sweet Capacious Smile’ 🎵 When I smiled a sweet, capacious smile, De thing went bing, bang, bish. | |
![]() | (con. WWI) Wings on My Feet 259: ‘Done laid them Heinies low.’ ‘Done bing-banged ’em on the Rhine.’. | |
![]() | DSUE (1984) 80/1: from ca. 1910. |
2. as excl. indicating a sudden action.
![]() | I Got References (1947) 39: ‘I gottim [i.e. a rat] a-right on ada nose, bing-bang! Smash-crash-a-biff, bang, wallop’. | |
![]() | Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 84: Well, the big strangers approach their objective from different directions and they go to work. Bing, bang, pow! They beat the cruller off everyone on that corner. |
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