spang

[ spang ]

adverb

, Informal.

1. directly; exactly:

   The bullet landed spang on target.

spang

/ spæŋ /

adverb

1. informal.
   exactly, firmly, or straight

   spang on target

Word History and Origins

Origin of spang¹

First recorded in 1835–45; origin uncertain

Word History and Origins

Origin of spang¹

C19: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

“If it hadn’t been a good shot—spang through the brain—’twould never have killed the fox.

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Bullets whined and droned above them and frequently hummed down the fissure to search them out, the high, falsetto whine changing quickly to an angry spang! as they struck the wall a slanting blow.

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Why, he come down here, lammed aloose a time or two, and then hung his head over the edge of the gully there, with a ball right spang betwixt his eyes.

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Already their pieces were at play; and every now and then was heard the sharp whip-like “spang” of the rifles around the circle of the glade.

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In the past three months there are ten thousand pounds gone spang!”

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