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noun
Whang  n.  
1.
A blow; whack. (Dial. or Colloq.)
2.
A large piece or slice; chunk. (Scot. & Dial. Eng.)
3.
Formerly, a house-cleaning party. (Local, U. S.)






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"Whang" Quotes from Famous Books



... paper, gents," continued Sanford, with a dramatic whang of a leathern wallet down into his palm. "I'm buying up ...
— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... bite him, even though he's as tough as nails. Yell him deaf, owld leddy. Do it fer his mether's sake, th' scand'lous owld rake he is. Get his year in yer teeth an' hold on, fer 'tis a leddy-killer ye have in yer hands at last. Whang his hide off! Whang him! Whang him!' An' I thought th' old raskil ...
— Mr. Trunnell • T. Jenkins Hains

... one of these little sallies, Major Brown, Captain Sweetman, Lieutenant Bache and myself were taking supper together, when "whang!" came a bullet into Lieutenant Bache's plate, breaking a hole through it. The bullet came from the gun of one of the Indians, who had returned to the high bluff over-looking our camp. Major Brown declared it was a crack shot, because it broke the plate. ...
— The Life of Hon. William F. Cody - Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide • William F. Cody

... of us being the wiser. And that creature, whatever it may have been, was carrying the ham away when it thought you must be following below; so what does it do but let out a screech of fury, and whang, the ham ...
— Chums of the Camp Fire • Lawrence J. Leslie

... Whang! went the klipsie, the fanged arm whirling over so fast that the eye could hardly follow it, and burying its points in the ground. Skookie laughed and danced up and down, showing how it certainly would have killed a fox had the latter ...
— The Young Alaskans • Emerson Hough

... the rifleman, once more raising his piece to the level, "look e' out! Don't be skeert abeout my hittin' o' ye! The whang lies well ageen the bit o' timber. The ball's a big un. I recking I kin bark it ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid



Words linked to "Whang" :   rap, attack, belt, hit, assault, beat, blow, round, assail, whack, lash out



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