whang
1 Americannoun
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a resounding blow.
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the sound produced by such a blow.
the whang of gongs and cymbals.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
noun
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the resounding noise produced by a heavy blow
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a heavy blow
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of whang1
First recorded in 1815–25; imitative
Origin of whang2
1530–40; originally Scots form of thwang, early form of thong ( cf. whack, whittle); sense “penis” perhaps an unrelated expressive word ( cf. dong 3)
Example Sentences
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Phil Mickelson slid down a hill on his butt like he was riding a saucer, and John Daly decided to whang a club into Lake Michigan in mid-tantrum.
From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2015
Along Broadway and Commerce streets the whine and whang of steel-string guitars floated through doorways.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2014
Toward the end, a solo piper�spotlighted on a platform as though he were walking a battlement�softly plays Lights Out, and with a final scream of pipes and whang of drums the Watch marches out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here is an old-time bard trying manfully to "whang 'is bloomin' lyre" to the rhythms of his youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Painful as the setting may have been there was “never a whang out of her,” as the doctor remarked, although she hung on tightly to Gladys’s white sleeve with her dirty hand.
From The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)
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