bang
v.— «Some of the recruits in the video—many who appear to be teenagers—are eager to “bang,” or join the Bloods. “I am ready to bang it official,” one recruit says. “Ready to bang for the Blood here,” says another.» —“Mean Streets: Gangs Going Digital” by Pierre Thomas, Jack Date, Nitya Venkataraman WPVI-TV (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Feb. 19, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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