Definition of "twanging" [twanging]

• Present participle of twang. (verb)
• A sound that twangs. (noun)

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• "Tom Mitchenall, 17, had hooked a large carp and was jostling with the heavy fish when the line snapped sending the slender plastic float "twanging" back at him like an arrow."
• "The two elements came together best when the poet (Costa prize-winning Christopher Reid) made you look again – the wine bottle bowing to one glass then whispering in the ear of the other; the laminated menu "twanging like a riot policeman's shield"; the "wooden phallus" of the pepper pot "scattering seed"."
• "It sort of works, with Luca Tom Hardy playing a Vauxhall gay club bouncer dropping twanging guitars and harmonicas over some big room beats."