Fourth of July sound

The answer

BANG

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BANG answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for BANG

Every other clue in this collection answered by BANG, most used first.

• Firecracker sound - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Loud noise - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Explosive sound - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Gunshot sound - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Big ___ theory - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Backfire sound - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Gun sound - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Explosion sound - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• [Just like that!] - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Loud sound - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Slam sound - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Report of a shooting? - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• "The Big __ Theory" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• "__ the Drum Slowly" - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Firework sound - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Report - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Slam - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Canyon sound - ECHO, used 202 times
• Throat-clearing sound - AHEM, used 180 times
• Scissors sound - SNIP, used 135 times
• High-five sound - SLAP, used 132 times
• Horn sound - TOOT, used 132 times
• Attention-getting sound - PSST, used 120 times

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