Banging vs Ganging - What's the difference?
banging | ganging |
* He was banging cocktail waitresses]] two at a time!'' - Alex Rocco in the movie ''[[w:The Godfather, The Godfather
The action of the verb to bang.
(slang) Excellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great.
(colloquial, dated) Huge; great in size.
* 1887 , George Brown Goode, The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States
* 2011 , Brenda Bishop Booma, Hugh Peabody Bishop, Marblehead's First Harbor
As verbs the difference between banging and ganging
is that banging is present participle of lang=en while ganging is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between banging and ganging
is that banging is the action of the verb to bang while ganging is {{cx|fishing|lang=en}.As an adjective banging
is excellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great.banging
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- The banging of the hammers could be heard from several streets away.
Adjective
banging' (also ' bangin' )- Wow, what a banging haircut! It looks terrific!
- (Forby)
ganging
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The object of the snood swivels, in which the gangings are so easily adjustable, is to save time in removing the fish and in baiting the hooks.
- The full length of each tub was just under half a mile and had a total of 270 gangings and hooks if it was a nine-foot rig. Each line was coiled into a wooden barrel three feet in diameter and thirty inches high.