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spang \spang\,
adverb:
directly, exactly: The bullet landed spang on target.

He had been knocked spang out of his Keds.
-- Stephen King, "Different Seasons," 1983

"And you say Stephanie has hidden this notebook in Daddy's cow-cream?" "Plumb spang in the cow-creamer."
-- P.G. Wodehouse, "The Code of the Woosters," 1938

Spang is an Americanism of uncertain origin. It first entered English in the 1830s.

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