bang
v.— «After an hour-long rain delay, the umpires called the game because the field was a mess.…”Early in the game I thought, ‘Yeah, we’re going to get banged pretty soon,’ but once we got into the fifth, sixth inning and they didn’t bang it I said, ‘Well, we’re going to play right through.’”» —“Chiefs Slosh Past Ottawa At Big Mac Syracuse Wins Its Home Opener In A Game Called After Seven Innings Because Of Rain” by Matt Michael Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) Apr. 13, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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