bang-bang

adjective3

1. •
   Of a play, very close between being an out and being safe.

   • In a game between Los Angeles and host Cincinnati, the Dodgers second baseman is called out at first base on a bang-bang play. — 2006
2. •
   Prepared in the style of bang bang chicken.
3. •
   Applied to a kind of feedback control, or controller, that switches abruptly between two states.