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Slap-bang
in sport, means that the gun was discharged incessantly; it
went slap here and bang there. As a term of laudation it means “very
dashing,” both words being playful synonyms of “dashing,” the
repetition being employed to give intensity. Slap-bang, here we are
again, means, we have “popped” in again without ceremony. Pop,
slap, bang, and dash are interchangeable. Dickens uses the word to
signify a low
eating-house.
“They lived in the same street, walked to town every morning at the
same hour, dined at the same slap-bang every day.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Slap-bang from Infoplease:
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