Bada Bing! It's in the Dictionary

Reuters ^ | Thu, Aug 21, 2003

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"Bada bing" -- the catchphrase made famous by hit television show "The Sopranos (news - Y! TV)" -- has earned a place alongside 3,000 other new entries in the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English, published on Thursday.

"Reality TV," "SARS (news - web sites)" and "Muggle," someone lacking magic powers from the "Harry Potter (news - web sites)" series of novels by author J.K. Rowling (news - web sites), have also been added to the tome, the largest one-volume dictionary of English, the book's publishers said.

The Oxford dictionary describes "bada bing" (also "bada bing bada boom") as an exclamation to emphasize that something will happen effortlessly and predictably. The word is also the name of a strip club in the mob drama.

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[Revolting cat!]

Another big step for the mankind!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Next, they should add "No, no, please don't hurt me. No..."

[Revolting cat!]

The cat won't rest until they add the verbs "lewinsky" and "condidit"!

[Wright is right!]

There is quite an excellent local jazz band in Nashville named "Bada Bing Bada Boom" that's made quite a name for themselves. And they have a really fine-looking female drummer.

Michael

[Revolting cat!]

The cat won't rest until they add the verb[...] "condidit"!

Wait a minute, kitty cat, it's already there: condo, condidit, condone!

[Mr. Bird]

"Bada bing" -- the catchphrase made famous by hit television show "The Sopranos

I could have sworn Sonny Corleone said it first...

[Consort]

"Bada bing" -- the catchphrase made famous by hit television show "The Sopranos..."

No. Comedian Pat Cooper made it famous.

Bada bing blowup

Actor James Caan is claiming he invented the line "bada bing" during the filming of "The Godfather" almost 30 years ago.

Fuhgitaboutit, says longtime Las Vegas comedian Pat Cooper.

The veteran funnyman called a New York gossip columnist to rebut Caan's claim, made Sunday at a Planet Hollywood opening in South Beach, Fla. Cooper said "bada bing" was in his routine "The Italian Wedding" in 1958 and he recorded it in 1964, selling more than a million copies.

[Mr. Bird]

...."Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh? Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh? Now you wanna gun down a police captain, why, because he slapped ya in the face a little bit? Hah? What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot'em a mile away? You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing! you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit. Come're...

Cooper may have said it first, but I believe more people saw Caan recite the above than visited Cooper in the Catskills in his lifetime...

Either way, it wasn't the Sopranos...

[Consort]

Cooper was a regular on TV for many years and he used that line all the time.

[Malsua]

And the Bada Bing is only about 1/2 mile from where I work. It looks alot bigger on TV than it really is.

[Mr. Bird]

Easy enough to settle. Anyone got one of the million recordings sold of Cooper using "bada bing"?

[I still care]

I have that album. It's in there, in a whole series of the "sounds" of an Italian wedding, from the little kid singing "Mama..." to slapping together of the sandwiches. It is pretty funny.

[azhenfud]

Bada Bing?
Bada pronunciation:
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/scene/beijing/badaling.htm

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Just a long as they avoid the word "ralphie" as in "his girlfriend was giving him a ralphie.

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Just a long as they avoid the word "ralphie" as in "his girlfriend was giving him a ralphie.

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Just a long as they avoid the word "ralphie" as in "his girlfriend was giving him a ralphie.

[CJ Wolf]

You wanna remind me of that one more time.

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[Shermy]

You're book-worthy.