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bang

bang, boom

noun BAHNG Rare
Communication Speech

Origin: English onomatopoeia

Also means

sonic boom

Usage Note

Bang entered French as a borrowing from English. Its most technical use is bang supersonique, the term for the sonic boom produced when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier. In informal speech it is simply an exclamation or noun for a sudden loud noise.

Examples

"On a entendu un bang terrible."

Natural Translation

We heard a terrible bang.

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