slap-bang

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adjective

: marked by roughness and impetuousness of manner or method

businessmen of the slap-bang, horn-blowing, bluff, good-natured … kind

—Edna Ferber

slap-bang … production methods

—K. B. Butler

slap-bang

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adverb

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: with excessive force, haste, and usually noise : precipitately

yachts and … chasers ran slap-bang at 16 knots into a convoy

—Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican

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