Meaning

2 senses
  1. Directly or immediately.

    It was a stormy day and it was slap-bang in the middle of the fair weather season.

    You'll see the tower slap-bang in front of you when you come out of the station.

    unmittelbar, ruckzuck, ratzfatz

    directly or immediately

  2. In a violent or sudden or noisy manner.

    klatsch-bum

    in a violent or sudden or noisy manner

Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 3
directly:
suddenly, immediately:
violently, noisy:

Origin

From slap + bang.

From slap + bang.

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Forms

more slap-bang, most slap-bang
Comparativemore slap-bang Lesson
Superlativemost slap-bang

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
directly, immediately:smack
Close in meaning
  • in a violent or sudden or noisy manner:slam-bang

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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