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spang

American  
[spang] / spæŋ /

adverb

Informal.
  1. directly; exactly.

    The bullet landed spang on target.


spang British  
/ spæŋ /

adverb

  1. informal exactly, firmly, or straight

    spang on target

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of spang

First recorded in 1835–45; origin uncertain


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But Beverly Hills is spang in the middle of one of America's largest urban bowls, Mr. Sarthou.

From Time Magazine Archive

There it sat, an $18 million imitation English village, spang in the midst of the Connecticut countryside.

From Time Magazine Archive

The State Department announced that it had severed relations with French-owned Martinique, the green, blockaded Caribbean island which lies spang across the Atlantic approach to the Panama Canal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Turning a corner, he bumped spang into another hurrying stroller, a large, portly man with walrus mustaches.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It'll blow that thar barn spang off'n the bluff, I'm thinkin'—an' the filly—Cobe—Cobe!" he cried out to her as he neared the shanty.

From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Malcolm Fraser

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