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slap-bang

American  
[slap-bang] / ˈslæpˈbæŋ /

adverb

British Informal.

  1. slam-bang.

slap-bang British  

adverb

  1. US equivalent: slam-bang.  in a violent, sudden, or noisy manner

  2. directly or immediately

    slap-bang in the middle
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The questions hanging over England are being asked slap-bang in the middle of the Stokes-McCullum era.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2024

Facebook is only 18 but it’s slap-bang in the middle of a mid-life crisis, with user numbers declining and TikTok eating its Gen Z lunch.

From The Verge • Jul. 20, 2022

That is a rather more complex issue than normal, of course, because there is a great big World Cup slap-bang in the middle of next season.

From New York Times • May 6, 2022

But he is 77 and slap-bang in the Covid-19 danger zone, and accepts that now is the time to sit tight, wait it out.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2020

A nurse with broomy hair ran slap-bang into me.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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