bang vs know

bang

verb
  • To engage in sexual intercourse. 

  • To inject intravenously. 

  • To hit hard. 

  • To hammer or to hit anything hard. 

  • To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair). 

  • To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something. 

adv
  • With a sudden impact. 

  • Precisely. 

  • Right, directly. 

intj
  • A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc. 

noun
  • An explosion. 

  • A sudden percussive noise. 

  • An explosive product. 

  • A thrill. 

  • An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano. 

  • A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n! 

  • An act of sexual intercourse. 

  • A strike upon an object causing such a noise. 

  • An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug). 

  • strong smell (of) 

  • An abrupt left turn. 

  • The symbol !, known as an exclamation point. 

know

verb
  • To experience. 

  • To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that. 

  • To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study. 

  • To be or become aware or cognizant. 

  • To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music). 

  • To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered. 

  • To be aware of; to be cognizant of. 

  • To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change. 

  • To have knowledge; to have information, be informed. 

noun
  • Knowledge; the state of knowing. 

  • Knowledge; the state of knowing; now confined to the fixed phrase ‘in the know’ 

How often have the words bang and know occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )