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slap bang

 adverb
     
slap bang also slap informal
1 if you run, drive etc slap bang into something, you hit it with a lot of force
slap bang into
I ran slap bang into a lamp-post.
2 exactly in a particular place or at a particular time
slap bang next to
Anne's house is slap bang next to the station.
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