slap-bang
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8.1
- adverb
- /slæp-bæŋ/
- UK
- The restaurant is slap bang in the middle of the busy shopping district.
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Watch on YouTubeThis is right slap bang in your wheelhouse, I think.
- This is right slap bang in your wheelhouse, I think.
- That this one tweet is so representative that it is slap bang in the bull's eye of this person's being.
- And the way that I can sold it to people was imagine that you're in a small, you're in a phone box and the phone box is sitting slap bang next to the Empire State Building.
Examples
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If you look at the site, it's pretty much slap bang in the centre of London.
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This is right slap bang in your wheelhouse, I think.
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That this one tweet is so representative that it is slap bang in the bull's eye of this person's being.
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The painting was hung slap bang on the wall opposite the entrance.
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The new café is located slap bang at the corner of Main Street and Second Avenue.
Synonyms
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3.4
Show that something is exactly right or that you agree
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7.9
Directly in the middle
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4.0
Directly into or at something
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7.4
Exactly right for a situation or need
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8.6
Directly at a certain place or time
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9.9
Exactly in a particular place or position
Antonyms
How Exact
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Slap-bang comes from joining two simple sound words: slap 'a quick hit' and bang 'a loud hit'. Because these sharp sounds make you picture something landing exactly where it should, slap-bang now means 'right in the middle' or 'exactly'.