unbanged

unbanged

English

Etymology

un- +‎ banged

Adjective

unbanged (not comparable)

1. Not banged; not struck suddenly.
   • 2010, Jennifer Crusie, Welcome to Temptation (page 141)

     Twenty minutes later, she was suffocating on top of him in the heat of her unair-conditioned bedroom, the ancient box springs squeaking under them like a bad accordion, and her head was unbanged because the sex was lousy.

2. (US, rare) Without bangs (the hairstyle).
   • 2007, Annie H. Ryder, Hold Up Your Heads, Girls!, page 13:

     That is why, in spite of shabby dresses, unbanged hair, tremendous mouths, and large noses, some persons are purely delightful.

   • 2007 July 26, Anna Jane Grossman, “Bangs Return, and With Them, Naysayers and Chopaholics”, in New York Times‎:

     “To me, they scream: ‘I’m cooler than you, I have a lot of sex, and if you leave your husband with me I’ll devour him,’ ” said Meredith Hays, a literary agent in Manhattan with an unbanged brow.