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bang up

bang up adjective: good, superior, excellent.

Adjective

bang up (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, often hyphenated) Good, superior, excellent.
    • He's doing a bang up job.

Verb

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

  1. (informal, transitive) To damage.
    • He banged up his new car last night.
  2. (informal, transitive) To put someone in prison, or into their individual cell.
    • He was so drunk that the police banged him up for the night.
    • A combination of having too many plates spinning, ill-health, being banged up for debt (1822-23) and bankruptcy all served to impede James' progress, although the Central Junction Railway - a 16-mile horse-drawn tramway between Stratford and Moreton (Gloucestershire) - did materialise in 1826.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56
    Synonyms:
    dub up
  3. (intransitive, slang) To inject a recreational drug.
    • I knew some fellows who banged up, I mean heroin, but I kind of stayed away from it.1971, Army Digest, volume 26, page 31

Synonyms of bang up

Forms of bang up

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

Questions about bang up

What does bang up mean?
Bang up means good, superior, excellent.
What part of speech is bang up?
Bang up can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near bang up in the dictionary

  1. bang tails
  2. Bang That Was Promised
  3. bang the door down
  4. bang the drum for
  5. bang to rights
  6. bang up
  7. bang zone
  8. bang zones
  9. Bang's disease
  10. bang-bang
  11. bang-on

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