slap-bang

Related to slap-bang: slap down, backslap, slap on the back

slap-bang

1. Very forcefully, noisily, or violently. The truck crashed slap-bang through the wall, causing chaos throughout the building. She wasn't watching where she was going and ran slap-bang into the side of her neighbor's car.
2. Precisely or directly. With a location slap-bang in the middle of the city, they're poised to become one of the trendiest shops in the area. I don't understand why they had to schedule camp slap-bang at the beginning of summer vacation. I just want a couple weeks to veg out on my own!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • slap-dab
  • bum rush
  • crash together
  • crash to the floor
  • hurl (someone or something) into (something)
  • hurl into
  • crash down
  • glug
  • varoom
  • bang your/their/our heads together
References in periodicals archive
'I did not want to live slap-bang in the middle of the city'
'I've made pounds 20k buying off-plan'
Our Goodison snout told us: ``It's really funny to see all these pristeen sports cars lined up looking as if they've just been driven away from a garage forecourt and there, slap-bang in the middle of them, is this scruffy looking van.
The Insider: Dunc's a racing cert to keep parking spec
The pub is slap-bang in the middle of the huge project.
Kitchen Bar is no bar to progress
would he release on slap-bang in the middle new album will be released 16.
EVEN with a No1 single [...]; the Razz
Not only does the eight-storey terracotta and glass structure form a focal point to Atlantic Wharf, but also provides a unique opportunity in city living as it is within walking distance of both the city centre and Cardiff Bay, being slap-bang between both.
Modernway oflife atWharf
Huw Evans challenges my admittedly unscientific theory regarding hunting hounds (October 11), yet having laid down many trails in my own letter (October 4), it seems that Mr Evans followed the scent of his own prejudice and failed to notice the 'nudge-nudge, wink-wink' signpost planted slap-bang in the middle of that trail.
Following the scent
Even though you could still be menstruating, you could be slap-bang in the middle of the menopause because the drop in hormone levels are enough to cause hot flushes, insomnia, mood changes, dizziness, tearfulness and loss of bottle.
Your Problems: In a panic over flushes
They failed to notice that the width of Heath Crescent, in Stoke Heath, Coventry, had been reduced and drove slap-bang into one of the extended sections of pavement.
Drivers go bowling along to disaster; TYRES WRECKED AS TRAFFIC-CALMING TAKES UNWARY BY SURPRISE
Why else would he release her second album, Echo, slap-bang in the middle of X Factor season?
EVEN with a No1 single [...]; the Razz: showbuzz
Welcome to Iceland - slap-bang in the middle of Italy.
ICE SCREAMER!
The yacht, Le Grand Bleu, is moored in the harbour in Monte Carlo, slap-bang in front of the star's house.
Big spender spoils view
So Wimbledon are going to build a complete temporary stadium slap-bang in the middle of it.
Mick Dennis column: Bowl load of trouble for Dons
Unfortunately, he also dropped the rather horrifying bombshell that Subway is, in fact, located slap-bang in the middle of an industrial estate on the edge of town.
Club: Subway Leven; Dirty dancing on dark side of town
We fully support the suggestion that it should be moved to the old Central Library which, being slap-bang in the centre of the city, sounds absolutely ideal.
What we need is a general-purpose Hall of Fame; Letter of the week
Turning an inoffensive-looking corner, we ran slap-bang into three armoured vehicles, surrounded by heavily protected RUC officers carrying bazookas, flame-throwers and small thermonuclear missiles.
Furby's Gospel: Move over Rambo, Bobby's on the beat