# bang out

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/bang-out
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To do (something) quickly, in a slipshod, or unprofessional manner, especially performing or composing music or a piece of writing.

## 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.

## Origin

Clipping of bang out of order

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