[f. BANG v.1 + -ING2.] Dealing violent blows, striking violently and noisily; fig. (colloq.) overwhelming, ‘thumping.’
1560. Disob. Child, in Hazl., Dodsl., II. 282. What banging, what cursing, Long-tongue, is with thee.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, X ij b. The bangingest things … which I can picke out … are these.
1616. Holyday, Juvenal, 185. Then th’ axe their chariot-wheels with banging stroak Splits out.
1864. Archd. Denison, in Daily Tel., 31 Aug., 3/1. It was nothing to win an election unless they could win it with a great banging majority.
