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ˈbang-up, adj. phr., (advb. phr.), and n. slang.
Also banged-up.
[? as if bang or close up to a line. Cf. slap-up.]
A. adj. Quite up to the mark, stylish, in the pink of fashion. See also quot. 1811.
1810C. I. M. Dibdin Bang Up! 6 ‘Bang-up’ seems the watchword to be, From one tip-top driver to t'other. 1811Lex. Balatronicum, Bang Up, (Whip) quite the thing, hellish fine... A bang-up cove; a dashing fellow who spends his money freely. To bang up prime: to bring your horses up in a dashing or fine style: as the swell's rattler and prads are bang up prime; the gentleman sports an elegant carriage and fine horses. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. (1833) 163 Dance a bang-up theatrical cotillion. 1821Combe (Dr. Syntax) Wife v. (D.) Thus banged-up, sweeten'd, and clean shav'd. 1843Lever J. Hinton vii. 43 His spotted neckcloth knotted in bang-up mode. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. I. ii. viii. 239 A slap-up gal in a bang-up chariot. 1923R. D. Paine Comr. Rolling Ocean vii. 118 The salaries are bang-up nowadays. 1938I. Kuhn Assigned to Adv. iv. 39 There'd be a bang-up dinner, then a drive to some place outside the city where they could dance.
B. advb. phr. bang up = quite close up (to), right up (to). In modern use, freq. in attrib. phrases.
1819J. H. Vaux Mem. II. 154 A person, whose dress..is in the first style of perfection, is declared to be bang up to the mark. A man who has behaved with extraordinary spirit..is also said to have come bang up to the mark. 1858Lytton What will he do with it? i. i, Smart and sharp, bang up to the day. 1907[see bang adv.]. 1914Joyce Dubliners 260 Drive bang up against Trinity College gates. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Feb. 92/5 Bang-up-to-date neutron know-how. 1963Listener 21 Feb. 353/2 They had a bang-up-to-the-minute subject in Mr. Harold Wilson's election to the Labour Party leadership.
C. n.
a. A man of fashion; a dandy. Obs.
1811Lex. Balatronicum Pref., We trust..that the whole tribe of second-rate Bang ups will feel grateful [etc.]. 1824Examiner 613/1 Our Corinthians, Roués and Bang-ups. 1882Punch 22 Apr. 185/1 The Trio turned into the Arcade and saw a number of gay sparks and fair ones promenading... These then are the dandies, the fops, the goes, and the bang-ups, these the Corinthians of to-day.
b. A heavy overcoat (see quot. 1903). U.S.
[1810Sporting Mag. Dec. 127/1 One article was..a bang-up great coat.] 1835Fraser's Mag. XI. 298 Dames in bang-ups, Shawls swath'd round men. 1842Spirit of Times (Philad.) 13 Jan. (Th.), A gentleman dressed in a dark coloured fashionable bang-up. 1843Lever J. Hinton xxi, A green coat..over which he wore..a white ‘bang-up’, as it was called. 1846J. Keegan Leg. & Poems (1907) 396 His old grey frieze bang-up. 1853Public Ledger (Philad.) 11 June (De Vere), He was attired in an old bang-up, black vest, grey pants, and straw hat. 1903S. Clapin Dict. Amer. 36 Bang-up, an old word for a heavy overcoat, still surviving in some parts of the Union. |