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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
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[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")
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