| 释义 |
slam-bang, adv., a., and v.
Also slam bang.
[f. slam v.1 4 + bang v. 8. Cf. slap-bang adv., a., and n.]
A. adv. With a slam and a bang; with noisy violence.
1840R. M. Bird Robin Day 25 Five or six hundred field pieces blazing away slambang. 1847in Halliw. 1853Hawthorne Tanglewood T. (Chandos) 201 He would fetch his club down, slam bang, and smash the vessel into a thousand pieces. 1887F. R. Stockton A Borrowed Month 159, I sent an arrow slam-bang into the lantern.
B. adj.
1. Noisy, violent.
1823‘J. Bee’ Dict. Slang 158 Slam-bang shops, places where gourmands of the fourth rate regale;..probably, from..the ‘slam-banging’ of the doors, plates, and tools. 1889Advance (Chicago) 14 Mar., The friends of the Sabbath are not what some..slam-bang reformer would have the world believe. 1957Economist 28 Sept. 999/1 With all the diplomatic finesse of a runaway bulldozer, the governments of the major powers are conducting a slambang exchange of public accusations. 1981H. R. F. Keating Go West, Inspector Ghote ii. 25 Fred Hoskin's slam-bang voice broke in on his thoughts.
2. In weakened use: exciting, impressive, first-rate. Also, vigorous, energetic. colloq.
1939Sun (Baltimore) 4 Dec. 13/4 The balance of the card will be made up of some real slam-bang preliminaries. 1942Ibid. 17 June 1/8 American heavy bombers have entered the Mediterranean sea war in slambang fashion. 1952B. Malamud Natural 20 A slambang young pitcher who'd soon be laying them low in the big leagues. 1965Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1061/2 We have this plot for a slam-bang topical novel about the Johnson administration. 1972D. Delman Sudden Death (1973) v. 126 You were good today. I watched you. Slam-bang. 1975Publishers Weekly 2 June 49/1 A very cerebral English mystery, with..a finale that is full of slambang action. 1979Radio Times 5–11 May 23/2 It was described by Judith Crist as a ‘slam-bang top-quality grown-up adventure which thumbs its nose at authority and morality’.
C. v.
1. intr. To slam and bang.
1837Miss Sedgwick Live & Let Live (1876) 110 She slam⁓bangs about the house. 1896Kipling Seven Seas 51 My engines Through all the seas, slam-bangin' home again, Slam-bang too much.
2. trans. To assail violently.
1888The Voice (N.Y.) 12 July, You might as well denounce the legal profession because of the shysters..as to slam-bang newspapers because there are recreant editors.
Hence ˈslam-ˌbanging vbl. n.
1823[see sense 1 of the adj., above]. 1843Knickerbocker XXII. 41 The creaking on its rusty hinges and slam-banging of the sign of the Devil-Tavern. 1889The Voice (N.Y.) 1 Aug., When you take up a Prohibition organ, you will find it full of political slang and slambanging. |