Bang

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Contents 1 In music 2 People 3 As shorthand or slang 4 See also

Bang or bangs may refer to:

• A loud noise, like an explosion or a drumbeat
• Bang (Korean) (pronounced 'bahng'), an amusement room for computer games, drinking, or other entertainment in Korean
• Bangs, an American English term for hair that is cut short around the forehead (a 'fringe' in British English)
• Big Bang is a physics theory explaining the beginning of the universe
• Bang, a Desperate Housewives episode
• Bang!, a wild west-themed card game (Origins Award-winning card game of 2003)
• Bang! Howdy, an online strategy game
• !BANG!, a professional wrestling promotion
• Bang!, a Belgian comic by Marc Legendre
• Bang!, a popular series of humorous NFL cartoons
• 'Bangs', or brucellosis, a bacterial disease (a corruption of the alternate name 'Bang's disease')
• Bhang, a cannabis derivative from the Indian subcontinent
• Slang for exclamation mark
• A fringe of hair cut across the forehead (USA usage). (British: "fringe")
• An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
• See BANG file

[edit] In music

• Bang! (Rutter), an opera by John Rutter
• Bangs (band), an American punk rock band
• Bang (band), an early 1970s hard rock group
• Bang!, the Happy Hardcore group
• Bang (album), an album by The James Gang, released in 1973
• Bang! (album), the title of two different compilation albums by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
• Bang (Jesus Lizard album), a compilation album by the Jesus Lizard issued in 2000 by Touch and Go Records
• Bang!, the title of a World Party album
• "Bang (song)", a single by the band Blur
• "Bangs (song)", a song by They Might Be Giants
• Bang, the offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano (see also: checka and skank)
• "Bang!" is a single released by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Bang Records, a record label
• to hit a drum

[edit] People

• Lester Bangs, American music journalist.
• John Kendrick Bangs, 19th-century writer.
• Outram Bangs (1863–1932), American zoologist.
• Molly Bang (1943-) American illustrator.
• An uncommon Korean family name:
  • Bang Seong Joon, South Korean voice actor
  • Bang Young-ung (b. 1942), South Korean novelist

[edit] As shorthand or slang

• the act of sexual intercourse
• an exclamation mark, in printer and computer jargon
• a factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
• an explosive product, in mining ('load the bang into the hole')
• an abrupt left turn, in Boston slang (the opposite of this, an abrupt right turn, is a hang);
• the state of being sexually attractive ('she is banging!'), especially in British slang
• In Britain, "bang goes X" is slang for "that's put an end to X".

• bangs: brucellosis (a bacterial disease) (from its alternate name "Bang's disease")

[edit] See also

• Boom