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spang

[spang]
adverb Informal.
  1. directly, exactly: The bullet landed spang on target.
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Origin of spang

An Americanism dating back to 1835–45; origin uncertain
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Historical Examples of spang

  • We haw no bow to shoot with, but spang them from the naillis of our thowmbes.

    The Devil in Britain and America

    John Ashton

  • I'm down, and you've got the pearls, and Hank and Spang are hot on my trail.

    Motor Matt's Mystery

    Stanley R. Matthews

  • He loved to swing that sledge, to hear the spang of the steel ring out.

  • Lacking other means of expression, there will come “spang” from his mouth a coinage of his own.

  • He was in the open now, free of stones and brush, with the spang of rifles in the air.

British Dictionary definitions for spang

spang

adverb
  1. US and Canadian informal exactly, firmly, or straightspang on target
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Word Origin for spang

C19: of unknown origin
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