slap-bang

Definitions

Examples

• Up and down the plane I heard the slap of blinders yanked down over the windows while the rest of us eagerly took in the view.

• Did the French monarchy end not with a bang—or a whimper—but a smile?

• More clumsily, fireworks stand in for the Big Bang and a potato and peas are invoked to explain relativity.

• “Now get on your knees and crawl,” he demanded with the slap of a leather horse crop against the palm of his hand.

• This professional seducer, of sorts, has been pictured holding a T-shirt reading “Diss Fatties, Bang Hotties.”

• Bang went the fragile bulb, as it splintered into a thousand atoms, and the mercury shot in sparkling globules over the table.

• Garnache closed the door upon him with a bang, and smiled quietly as he turned to Valerie.

• "Slap your saddles on them fresh hosses," he grated harshly from the back of a deep-chested, lean-flanked gray.

• Miss Boutts replied that they were too busy in the daytime, but were asked once a week to a "bang-up" affair.

• Slap through the town, whispered Sikes; therell be nobody in the way to-night to see us.