Meaning

3 senses
  1. (Philippines, US, plural, usually plural)Hair hanging over the forehead.

    Tiffany has long hair and bangs.

    Pony

    чёлкаčólka, чу́бчикčúbčik, чубčub

    гри́вкаhrývka

  2. (US, plural, usually plural)A hairstyle including such hair, especially cut straight across the forehead.

  3. (uncountable)Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
hair that hangs down over the forehead:
Русский
By meaning 1
hair that hangs down over the forehead:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
hair that hangs down over the forehead:

Origin

From bang (“to cut [hair], dock [an animal's tail]”), probably from the sudden manner in w

From bang (“to cut [hair], dock [an animal's tail]”), probably from the sudden manner in which docked hair appears to burst out explosively when it's cut (i.e. "with a bang"). Ultimately from bang (“to strike noisily, explode”).

Shortened from Bang's disease.

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Forms

plural: bangses
Singularbangs
Pluralbangses

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
hair:bangB1fringeforelocks

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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