slam-bang

slam-bang
a) Noisy, raucous.

At a signal from Horkos box there was an all-out, slam-bang, grand salute of the guns and with it a pounding of the deep liquid bass drums.

b) Violent, forceful

Their arguments werent pleasant to hear or to watch, but they werent yet having the all-out, slam-bang quarrels they would have when I was older.

2. adverb
Shot or hit with a noise

Well! as soon as I jumped out of his way, bang went his piece, and bang went another, let fly by an Injun;—down went the Major, shot right through the hips, slam-bang.

3. noun
Noisy activity.

From far down the hall came the staccato notes of a new term, the slam-bang of teachers flinging open cabinets, filling trash cans, stapling lists to bulletin boards, dragging desks into optimistic configurations.


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