whang

IPA: wˈæŋ

noun

  • (dialect, colloquial) A blow; a whack.
  • (British, Scotland, dialect, colloquial) A large piece or slice; a chunk.
  • (US, dialect, dated) A house-cleaning party.
  • (UK, US, dialect, informal, dated) A leather thong.
  • (slang) The penis.
  • A surname.

verb

  • (chiefly of an object) To make a noise like something moving quickly through the air.
  • (informal, transitive) To throw with a rapid slamming motion.
  • (US, Scotland, British, dialect, slang) To whack or beat.
  • (Scotland) To slice, especially into large pieces; to chop.
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Examples of "whang" in Sentences

  • I heard a shell whang dead center into his helmet and ricochet inside.
  • A good source to buy some organic astralagus/whang-ki: Mountain Rose Herbs.
  • All of a sudden, on a murky night, a light would hop up, right under our bows, almost, and an agonized voice, with the backwoods 'whang' to it, would wail out --
  • OTAY so i sweeps the oooshy grey goop into a pan wipe the dirt of wiff my sleeve plop the mess inta the cavernous gaping skull crater whang the parts ob skull into place
  • In the old days, when Clete and I walked a beat on Canal and in the Quarter, a cop in trouble or chasing a perp would whang his baton on the pavement or a curb as a distress signal to other cops.
  • Even those evil days of New England households, the annual house-cleaning, were robbed of some of their dismal terrors by what was known as a "whang," a gathering of a few friendly women neighbors to assist one another in that dire time, and thus speed and shorten the hours of misery.

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