Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bang off

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English

Syllables: bang off
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To fire (a weapon or a shot); to ejaculate.

Informal; Transitive verb

verb

To typewrite quickly.

Informal; Transitive verb

verb

Of an automated loom: to have the shuttle fail to follow its intended path and bang against other parts of the loom.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"I banged off a letter of complaint to the local newspaper."
"The loom may run well for half an hour, or longer, but as soon as the point of the cam comes in contact with the flat place on the cone a soft pick is the result, and the shuttle not being driven far enough into the box the loom bangs off on the next pick."
"If you use our waterproof bobbins you don't have any looms banging off because of filling yarn breaking on splintered, cracked and split bobbins."

Usage

Inflected Forms

bangs off (present, singular) banging off (participle, present) banged off (participle, past) banged off (past)

Questions

What does bang off mean?: To fire (a weapon or a shot); to ejaculate.

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