Meaning of bang off | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To fire (a weapon or a shot); to ejaculate.
   informal, transitive
2. To typewrite quickly.
   informal, transitive
3. Of an automated loom: to have the shuttle fail to follow its intended path and bang against other parts of the loom.
   intransitive

Examples

“I banged off a letter of complaint to the local newspaper.”

“The loom may run well for half an hour, or longer, but as soon as the point of the cam comes in contact with the flat place on the cone a soft pick is the result, and the shuttle not being driven far enough into the box the loom bangs off on the next pick.”

“If you use our waterproof bobbins you don't have any looms banging off because of filling yarn breaking on splintered, cracked and split bobbins.”

CEFR level