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English
Adjective
bang-up (comparative more bang-up, superlative most bang-up)
- (colloquial) Especially good; wonderful; superb.
1922, Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon:[…] he had dined with the Hickses ("a bang-up show -- they're really lances-you wouldn't know them!"), and had met there Lansing […]
1988, Janice Holt Giles, The Enduring Hills:“When we get to Nashville, let's find some nice place to eat, and let's have the best bang-up chicken dinner in town!”
1995 October 14, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):Hobbes: But then the aliens take over the Earth.
Calvin: Well, it's not like the grownups have done such a bang-up job.
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