Sekirov Dictionary

bang up

verb 3
adjective 2
forms 5

verb3

•
(informal) To damage.
- He banged up his new car last night.
•
(informal) To put someone in prison, or into their individual cell.
- He was so drunk that the police banged him up for the night.
•
(slang) To inject a recreational drug.
- I knew some fellows who banged up, I mean heroin, but I kind of stayed away from it. — 1971

adjective2

•
Good, superior, excellent.
- He's doing a bang up job.
•
(informal) Especially good; wonderful; superb.
- […] he had dined with the Hickses ("a bang-up show -- they're really lances-you wouldn't know them!"), and had met there Lansing […] — 1922

forms

banged up · banging up · bangs up · more bang-up · most bang-up

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