spanging

Verb (1)

spang (third-person singular simple present spangs, present participle spanging, simple past and past participle spanged)

1. To set with bright points: star or spangle.
2. To hitch; fasten.

Verb (2)

spang (third-person singular simple present spangs, present participle spanging, simple past and past participle spanged)

1. (intransitive) Of a flying object (such as a bullet), To strike or ricochet with a loud report.
   • Occasional bullets buzzed in the air and spanged into tree trunks.1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter XVIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 173

Verb (3)

spang (third-person singular simple present spangs, present participle spanging, simple past and past participle spanged)

1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive) To leap; spring.
   • a. 1758, Allan Ramsay, epistle to Robert Yarde
     But when they spang o'er reason's fence, / We smart for't at our own expense.
2. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To cause to spring; set forcibly in motion; throw with violence.

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Verb

spange (third-person singular simple present spanges, present participle spanging, simple past and past participle spanged)

1. (US, intransitive) To beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”
   • I don’t spange much because I really don’t like doing it. I eat out of trash cans a lot.1996, Tim “Salvage”, quoted in Ian Fisher, “Erin’s looking for Leg-Rub Steve. Fly’s looking for CD’s to steal. Star’s looking for Jaya. And it’s starting to get cold.”