fang

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see also: Fang, FANG

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Pronunciation

• enPR: făng, IPA: /fæŋ/

Noun

fang (plural fangs)

1. a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
2. (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom

Translations

• French: croc
• German: Fangzahn, Reißzahn
• Italian: dente, dente canino, zanna
• Portuguese: presa, canino
• Russian: клык
• Spanish: colmillo

Translations

• French: crochet
• German: Giftzahn

Verb

fang (fangs, present participle fanging; past and past participle fanged)

1. (rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.
2. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.

   • chariots fanged with scythes

Verb

fang (fangs, present participle fanging; past and past participle fanged)

1. (transitive, dialectal or archaic) To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
   • 1605, John Webster, Northward Ho, Act 1, Scene 2:

     Gentlemen, break not the head of the peace: it's to no purpose, for he's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged.

2. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To take; receive with assent; accept.
3. (transitive, obsolete, as a guest) To receive with hospitality; welcome.
4. (transitive, obsolete, a thing given or imposed) To receive.
5. (transitive, dialectal) To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.

Synonyms

• (seize; grip; clutch) clasp, grasp, grip; See also Thesaurus:grasp
• (take) land, lay hands on, score; See also Thesaurus:receive or Thesaurus:take
• (receive with hospitality) greet, welcome
• (receive) cop, get; See also Thesaurus:receive
• (adopt into spiritual relation)

Noun

fang (plural fangs)

1. (now, chiefly, dialectal, Scotland) A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
2. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
3. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.

   • the protuberant fangs of the yucca

4. (mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
5. (rare, in the plural) Cage-shuts.
6. (nautical) The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
7. (nautical) The valve of a pump box.

Synonyms

• (stolen goods) seeSynonyms en

Verb

fang (fangs, present participle fanging; past and past participle fanged)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.

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Fang

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Noun

1. A people of western Africa.

Proper noun

1. The dominant Bantu language of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, spoken by 1.3 million people, also called Pahouin.
2. A Beboid language of Cameroon, spoken by only 2400 people, so called because it is spoken in the village of Fang.

Proper noun

1. A county in Shiyan, Hubei.

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FANG

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Noun

fang (uncountable)

1. (economics) The stock of the technology companies Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google.
   • 2017, Young Kim, Surviving the Buy Now, Pay Never Society, Lulu Press, Inc (ISBN 9781387359660), chapter 3 ↗:

     The FANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) today are leading the charge, and many of them boast P/Es in the hundreds!

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