BANG-UP Definition & Meaning

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bang-up

[ bang-uhp ]

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adjective

Informal.

excellent; extraordinary.

bang up

verb

slang:prison.
tr, adverb to lock up (a prisoner) in his or her cell, esp for the night

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of bang-up¹

First recorded in 1800–10; adj. use of verb phrase bang up

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Idioms and Phrases

Damage, injure, as in Banging up the car a second time will make Dad very unhappy , or Mother fell down the stairs and was all banged up . The verb to bang alone had this meaning from the 1500s on, up being added in the late 1800s. In the early 1800s it gave rise to the colloquial adjective bang-up , for excellent or very successful, as in David did a bang-up job baking the birthday cake .

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The good news is that Musk is doing a bang-up job helping people understand that Trump was never for the working man, as he has successfully tricked so many into thinking.

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If Newsom really hopes to be president someday, the best thing he could do is a bang-up job in his final 22 months as governor.

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Both men are doing a bang-up job so far.

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Taylor’s downtown dealership did a bang-up business with Christian churchgoers because his ads vowed, “No Sunday selling.”

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If there was any whimpering in that bang-up job, it was the smothered chorus of millions of people being eaten by vampires.

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