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bang around

bang around verb: to make a lot of percussive noise while moving around.

Verb

bang around (third-person singular simple present bangs around, present participle banging around, simple past and past participle banged around)

  1. (intransitive) To make a lot of percussive noise while moving around.
    • She banged around with those tools all night.
    Synonyms:
    bang about
  2. (transitive) To spend time in a place; to linger.
    • After meeting up with Simon, the two of us banged around the neighborhood.
    • This issue has been banging around in the popular imagination for a while.
  3. (transitive) To beat up, often over time or repeatedly.
    • He's been banging her around since they got married.

Synonyms of bang around

Forms of bang around

third-person singular presentbangs around
present participlebanging around
past participlebanged around
pastbanged around

Questions about bang around

What does bang around mean?
Bang around means to make a lot of percussive noise while moving around.
What part of speech is bang around?
Bang around is a verb.
What is the past tense of bang around?
The past tense of bang around is banged around.

Words near bang around in the dictionary

  1. Banfields
  2. Banfora
  3. bang
  4. bang a uey
  5. bang about
  6. bang around
  7. bang away
  8. bang bang
  9. bang bang chicken
  10. bang down the door
  11. bang for one's buck

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