unbanged

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ banged.

Adjective

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unbanged (not comparable)

  1. Not banged; not struck suddenly.
    • 2010, Jennifer Crusie, Welcome to Temptation, page 141:
      Twenty minutes later, she was suffocating on top of him in the heat of her unair-conditioned bedroom, the ancient box springs squeaking under them like a bad accordion, and her head was unbanged because the sex was lousy.
  2. (US, rare) Without bangs (the hairstyle).
    • 2007, Annie H. Ryder, Hold Up Your Heads, Girls!, page 13:
      That is why, in spite of shabby dresses, unbanged hair, tremendous mouths, and large noses, some persons are purely delightful.
    • 2007 July 26, Anna Jane Grossman, “Bangs Return, and With Them, Naysayers and Chopaholics”, in New York Times[1]:
      “To me, they scream: ‘I’m cooler than you, I have a lot of sex, and if you leave your husband with me I’ll devour him,’ ” said Meredith Hays, a literary agent in Manhattan with an unbanged brow.