(transitive, informal) To damage.
(transitive, informal) To damage.
He banged up his new car last night.
“And I dare say you've done a bang up job executing a narrative that is more interesting, interwoven with our various characters' interests, backstories, and play patterns.”
“Autocorrect doing a bang up job on that one.”
“Can't imagine why. He's doing such a bang up job making everyone's lives better.”
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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Autocorrect doing a bang up job on that one.
“Wow, incredible atmosphere tonight. Rice looks bang up for it.”
(idiomatic, often hyphenated) Good, superior, excellent.
He's doing a bang up job.
(transitive, informal) To put someone in prison, or into their individual cell.
He was so drunk that the police banged him up for the night.
"bang up" means: To put someone in prison, or into their individual cell.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
"bang up" means: To put someone in prison, or into their individual cell.. Register: informal slang, fine in casual conversation, texting and social media but not in academic essays, business writing or formal speech. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
“The Biden-Harris admin did a bang up job!”