According to WorldAtlas, Canada is the only non-European country to make its top ten list of coffee consumers. The United States at a distant 25 on the list.
prang
(noun) a crash involving a car or plane
prang
(verb) crash
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Originally WWII RAF slang; origin unknown.
prang (countable and uncountable, plural prangs)
(slang, dated) An aeroplane crash.
(dated, military slang) A bombing raid.
(chiefly, Australia and New Zealand, UK, informal) An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.
(US, slang, uncountable) Crack cocaine.
• (minor accident involving a motor vehicle): bingle (Australia), collision, crash, fender-bender (US)
prang (third-person singular simple present prangs, present participle pranging, simple past and past participle pranged)
(slang, dated) To crash an aeroplane.
(intransitive, chiefly, Australia and New Zealand, UK, informal) To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle.
(transitive, chiefly, Australia and New Zealand, UK, informal) To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle).
From Khmer.
prang (plural prangs)
(architecture) A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Thailand and Cambodia.
• pgRNA, pgrna
Source: Wiktionary
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
According to WorldAtlas, Canada is the only non-European country to make its top ten list of coffee consumers. The United States at a distant 25 on the list.