Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of banjax.
- adj. slang Broken, ruined, shattered; confounded.
- adj. slang Tired, sleepy, cream crackered.
Examples
“Even though it has apparently been around since the 1920's (at least), it's use in the new Star Trek movie allows me to vote for "banjaxed" as word of the year.”
“For others – generally good money managers and child-free – it was enough, and for some – less good managers, or those banjaxed by a sudden change in circumstances or a combination of the two – it was nowhere near.”
The Guardian: TV review: My Big Fat Gypsy Christmas; Money; and Imagine: Books - the Last Chapter?
“The writer was Tony Marchant, and he knows his stuff, so I can completely believe that a nice if Adidas-laden convicted murderer, trying to do the halfway hostel thing and finding and loving a job in a garden centre and being shortlisted for promotion, could be banjaxed by his parole officer for a minor… something.”
The Guardian: Rewind TV: Sherlock; Endeavour; Public Enemies; New Girl – review
“The lettuce might well have been banjaxed by the monsoon before this, is the torrential rain drove the seeds too far under.”
“Don't overdo or you'll feel knackered or banjaxed.”
“The balance of power in European football is now so utterly banjaxed as to render product such as this - and "product" is surely what we're dealing with here - almost totally unwatchable.”
““Well, a bad pixie must be following me around because I am completely banjaxed,” I said, coming straight to the point.”
“Perhaps there was more of a crowd in the streets than was normal, and they remonstrating against the trains and the trams, the qualified things, never on time and the least sign of trouble, banjaxed.”
“Even as I write, the United States teeters on the brink of defaulting on its national debt, and Barack Obama interrupts television schedules to plead for the right to print more money; Britain is barely keeping its economic head above water; the eurozone is banjaxed; and someone has just bought a bottle of wine for £75,000.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“For all I know a thumb up could mean "I'm banjaxed" in Danish.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘banjaxed’.
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My Little Phonies
Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.
juggernaught, flamboyant, cuddly maggot, astrobleme, agroof, windburn, poshlost, crucifer, feedbag, dunderwhelp, nebelwerfer, bliss ninny and 453 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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Words and phrases of Irish origin, or...
not necessarily eponyms, but might be
boycott, blarney, banshee, galore, keen, donnybrook, colleen, drumlin, phoney, clan, cairn, ceili and 122 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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The Third Policeman
ineffable, serried, akimbo, delph, cinematograph, inexorable, bulbul, sub-rosa, roi-s'amuse, excoriation, butter-spade, infra-ocularly and 14 more...
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The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
discovered while reading this book.
balustrade, desideratum, laity, elysium, lairage, lambing, banjaxed, incontinence, tintack, jamb, hors de combat, nolle prosequi and 75 more...
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mrming's Words
banjaxed, antimacassar, feck, horsebox, cadge, hoon, minky, boon, groyne, voxel
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smileygill's Words
gnomon, dirigible, banjaxed, supercilious, ostentatious, tmesis
Tweets
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goborobo past participle of banjax - ruin, incapictate Jun 10, 2009
ulleskelf I've only ever seen this word in print twice. Terry Wogan called a book of his "Banjaxed' in the 1970s/80s (I think the word, like Sir Terry, is Irish). Then Richard Curtis used it in the introduction to the film script for 'Notting Hill'. It's a great word. Oct 12, 2007
mrming Something that is banjaxed will never function correctly again. Jan 16, 2007