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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

“I was sitting slap-bang in the middle of a sitcom.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2016

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

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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