BANGER

firecracker, cracker, banger

(noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing

banger

(noun) (British informal) pork sausage

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

banger (plural bangers)

A thing or person which bangs, in any sense.

(British): A firework that makes a bang.

(British, slang) A woman's breast.

(British, NZ, Australia, slang) A sausage.

(slang) An old, worn-out car.

(US, slang) A cylinder in a car.

(US, slang) Clipping of gangbanger.; A member of a gang.

(British, slang) A powerfully energetic piece of music, especially dance music.

(slang, by extension) Any particularly good or pleasing thing.

Synonyms

• (sausage): snag (Australia)

• (car): bucket, beater, hooptie, jalopy, wreck, crock, shitbox

Anagrams

• Bergan, graben

Source: Wiktionary



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INTERTRIGO

(noun) chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs)


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