to bang out
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6.6
- phrasal verb
- /bæŋ aʊt/
- Informal
:
sacar rápidamente
- They quickly bang out the final edits for the presentation before the deadline.
What if it's a keyboard that you banged out your world transforming software library on?
- What if it's a keyboard that you banged out your world transforming software library on?
- We're never going to compete with China on banging out widgets, you know, you know, metal bashing.
- Another good day, super productive, banging out operations at scale, client stuff.
- I think I go to the gym, we bang maybe the first round slightly line and then just banging out two hard rounds tops.
- It's just kind of like bang it out and literally, yeah, like in every way, you know what I mean?
Examples
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And I don't just mean opening up whatever word processing application that comes with your computer and banging out a manuscript.
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I agree that you can bang out something in a short period of time, but most writers—at least those getting paid for their writing—put some effort into editing what they have written.
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You can bang this out in like an hour.
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We can bang this project out in our sleep.
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I'll bet I could bang one out in ten minutes.
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Kind of taught myself guitar and, and I can bang stuff out on on piano if I need to from time to time.
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While you decide, I'm gonna bang out a couple of prayers.
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Yeah, tomorrow get, I mean, get somebody on all the steel wool, the Chrome and the bumpers, and yeah, we'll bang it out real quick and all that.
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She can easily bang out a report in less than an hour.
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He bangs out multiple sketches each day during his lunch break.
Synonyms
21
4.0
To make large amounts quickly with little care
16
4.0
To make many things quickly, often without much care
4
6.1
Make something quickly with little effort
2
6.0
Make many things like reports or products in a dull routine way
To make something quickly with little effort
To make writing or music quickly without much care
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'bang' conveys forceful, quick action and 'out' signals outward completion, so together they metaphorically extend to producing something rapidly or roughly (e.g., 'bang out a report'). This is a plausible inference but the specific sense 'produce quickly/casually' is colloquial and metaphorical rather than strictly compositional, so a B1 learner might not reliably predict it without exposure.
Etymology
Bang out also paints the picture of someone banging on a keyboard or machine to push work out fast. So it came to mean 'to produce something quickly or with little effort'.