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noun
Whang  n.  
1.
A blow; whack. (Dial. or Colloq.)
2.
A large piece or slice; chunk. (Scot. & Dial. Eng.)
3.
Formerly, a house-cleaning party. (Local, U. S.)





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"Whang" Quotes from Famous Books



... seemed calling up their vanished faces out of the twilight as he sang his little song. What feeling he threw into the chorus, what shaking of the voice, what soft sinking away of the last notes, the whang of the banjo softened ...
— The Rustler of Wind River • G. W. Ogden
... gents," continued Sanford, with a dramatic whang of a leathern wallet down into his palm. "I'm buying up all ...
— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland
... flag of truants and any way they didn't fire at them and the French captured New Orleans and win the war. The Germans is trying to pull the same stuff on our boys now and lots of times they run up and holler Conrad like they was going to give up and when your back is turned they whang away at you but they won't pull none of that stuff on me and when one of them trys to Conrad me I will ...
— The Real Dope • Ring Lardner
... the street. But Chong Mong-ju found me out. I was a dyer's helper in Pyonhan, a gold- miner in the placers of Kang-wun, a rope-maker and twine-twister in Chiksan. I plaited straw hats in Padok, gathered grass in Whang-hai, and in Masenpo sold myself to a rice farmer to toil bent double in the flooded paddies for less than a coolie's pay. But there was never a time or place that the long arm of Chong Mong-ju did not reach out and punish and thrust me upon the ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London
... mimicry of a woman's voice—Laura Bowman's as I believed—to determine through Chung who Thomas Gilbert's feminine visitor had been. Should that clue have been followed up before I moved on Eddie Hughes? Even as I got to this point, I heard Worth, punctuating his remarks with the whang of his rock on the bit of twig he was pounding ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan


Words linked to "Whang" :   rap, beat, belt, round, assail, lash out


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