Idiom
bang out
Meaning
To do (something) quickly, in a slipshod, or unprofessional manner, especially performing or composing music or a piece of writing.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I need to bang out this email before I leave.”
“The writer had to bang out a short article in only twenty minutes to meet the deadline.”
“Rather than refining the prose, the exhausted student chose to bang out the final essay in a single, unpolished sitting.”
Examples
simple
“I need to bang out this email before I leave.”
contextual
“The writer had to bang out a short article in only twenty minutes to meet the deadline.”
complex
“Rather than refining the prose, the exhausted student chose to bang out the final essay in a single, unpolished sitting.”
Origin
Clipping of bang out of order
Key words
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