1
: unduly loud or violent
a slam-bang clatter
2
: having fast-paced often nonstop action
a slam-bang adventure novel
3
: vigorously enthusiastic
made a slam-bang effort to win

Examples of slam-bang in a Sentence

heard a slam-bang crash from the garage
Recent Examples on the Web Dowd, who holds a master’s degree from New York’s Bernard Baruch School of Business and earns more than $40,000 a year [about $225,000 in 2024 dollars], sees the manhunt more as a nuts-and-bolts bureaucratic exercise than a slam-bang cops-and-robbers adventure. Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024 The coup de grâce is the credits sequence that follows this slam-bang cold open. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2024 Glover and Sloane balance the pacing between missions and slam-bang set-pieces and the quieter moments, like John and Jane’s regular pillow-talk debriefs. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2024 The slam-bang stuff in this picture is too tediously routine. Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023 Its slam-bang visual pileup plays against a long, steady stream of freight trains rolling past behind it, day and night, in a manufactured river transferring tons of cargo from the Port of Los Angeles to distribution centers to the east. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1823, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of slam-bang was circa 1823

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Cite this Entry

“Slam-bang.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slam-bang. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

Kids Definition

slam-bang

adjective
ˈslam-ˈbaŋ
1
: very noisy or violent
2
: having fast-paced often nonstop action
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