Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British A sausage.
- n. Chiefly British A noisy old car.
- n. Chiefly British A firework that explodes with a sudden loud noise.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which bangs. Specifically— Something very large; especially, a lie.
- n. One who or that which bangs. Specifically— Something very large; especially, a lie.
Wiktionary
- n. UK : A firework that makes a bang.
- n. UK, slang A woman's breast.
- n. UK, New Zealand, slang A sausage.
- n. slang An old, worn-out car.
- n. US, slang A cylinder in a car.
- n. US, slang A member of a gang, shortened version of the word gangbanger.
WordNet 3.0
- n. firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
- n. (British informal) pork sausage
Etymologies
- bang + -er; the sausages were so called because of the risk of explosion if not carefully cooked, due to excessive amounts of water stored inside the sausages to increase their mass and saleability. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A wall-banger is something that fails spectacularly on all three counts.”
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“The banger was a very short but powerful looking Arab man in his 40s.”
“I contacted him and no more than two days following our conversation I had myself a "banger" track to write to.”
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“For a very old "banger," insurance pays €1,000 — not a huge sum, so the company does not send a detective.”
“Just about every joint could be considered a "banger".”
“I never owned my own car (although I did share a "banger" with 3 others for a few years) until aged 29 - why?”
“Now, about just what goes into a traditional English 'banger'?”
“It's a little too slow to be a "banger", but it'll get your shoulders shaking a little.”
“No llega a ser un 'banger' pero siento algo muy especial al escucharlo, nos vemos el lunes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘banger’.
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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goodkitten's list
there is going to be a lot of words...
flammivomous, pep, electrolyzation, research, constrain, why, refrigerator, invisible, windblown, curate's egg, echoism, drumble and 103 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Specifically
Being a list of words which have "specifically" in their definitions.
recompose, specifically, Dutch, abstinence, discipline, virtue, namely, opening, century, amalgamation, cup, second and 303 more...
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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food words
weetabix, blancmange, shandy, meringue, allspice, pavlova, quiche, caster sugar, suet, moonshine, turnip, swede and 93 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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swag
one word music reviews
critical, official, swag, sick, slap, rugged, wicked, nasty, mad, filthy, sublime, ace and 31 more...
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wot's all this, then?
Britishisms and Anglophilia - Mencken has a great, if dated, list of comparisons between the British and American words here.
aluminium, gobsmacked, queue, lift, bin, rubbish, navvy, ironmonger, treacle, parcel, constable, monkey-nut and 45 more...
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Sausages!
Come on, who doesn't like a good sausage?
country thin, bratwurst, salami, kransky, andouille, boudin blanc, chorizo, blood sausage, Spanish sausage, Polish sausage, bologna, kielbasa and 79 more...
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chiefly british
windlestraw, boffin, poppet, bloody, motorway, telly, git, tyre, windscreen, zebra crossing, panda car, lorry and 61 more...
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Food&Kitchen
drupe, brick, offal, triffle, scullion, larder, cog, tub, swill, dreg, banger, kedgeree and 21 more...
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British variant
motorway, masthead, conk, nobble, bobble, jumper, stoat, minder, banger, boot, foolscap, bubble and squeak and 15 more...
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Baby, You're a Firework
cherry bomb, whizbang, cannon cracker, ladyfinger, banger, cracker, ashcan, gerb, crow scarer, squib, squib-cracker, fizgig and 27 more...
Tweets
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yarb Also a dilapidated automobile (can automobiles dilapidate?) May 2, 2008
yarb See also bangers and mash. Nov 30, 2007
skipvia Best served with mash. The sausage, I mean. Oct 17, 2007
john Short for headbanger. Also, sausage. Oct 17, 2007