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bangs up

bangs up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bang up.

Meaning of bang up

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.
    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

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Questions about bangs up

What is bangs up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bangs up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bang up.

Words near bangs up in the dictionary

  1. bangs out
  2. bangs some heads together
  3. bangs the door down
  4. bangs the drum for
  5. bangs to rights
  6. bangs up
  7. Bangsamoro
  8. Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
  9. Bangsar
  10. Bangses
  11. Bangsian

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