A kertwang is a situation that sends you careening speedily off in a different direction from the one you were going, physically, mentally, or emotionally. Or it's the act of being so redirected. Thus a practical joke is a kertwang, finding out your father is a cross-dresser is a kertwang, waking up to find your bed is across the room from where it was when you went to sleep is a kertwang. You can kertwang someone else by creating such a situation, or you can be kertwanged by encountering it yourself.
It is no coincidence that KER-TWANG is a cartoonishly exaggerated and distorted version of the noise a tennis racket makes when you hit the ball.
_________________ Second-time reader.
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