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Definition: Banger |
BangerNoun1. (British informal) pork sausage. 2. Firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BangerSynonyms: cracker (n), firecracker (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan, yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Banger |
| Specialty definitions using "banger": lazy balk. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Banger Sisters (2002) | |
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| "Banger" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.22% of the time. "Banger" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.22% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.08% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "banger": old banger. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "banger": banger-racing. | |
Ending with "banger": head-banger. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "banger"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | ç °ç„¶ä½œå"物. (various references) | |
Czech | petarda (crackers, petard), párek (brace, couple, Frankfurter, pair). (various references) | |
French | tacot, saucisse, pétard (backfire, whizz bang), guimbarde (old banger). (various references) | |
German | wurst (salami, sausage), kracher (cracker), knallkörper (bangers, fire cracker), klapperkiste (boneshaker, jalopy, knockmobile, rattler). (various references) | |
Greek | σαÏαβαλάκι. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | angerbay.(various references) | |
Spanish | salchicha (bratwurst, Frankfurter, hot dog, sausage), petardo (cracker, firecracker, fireworks, maroon, petard, thunderflash). (various references) | |
Swedish | skorv (barge, old tube, scurf). (various references) | |
Turkish | sosis (sausage, wiener, wienie), külüstür araba (boneshaker, flivver, jaloppy, jalopy, rattletrap, tin lizzie). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Ð½ÐµÐ±Ð¸Ð»Ð¸Ñ†Ñ (fable). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "banger": bangers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "banger": gangbanger. (additional references) | |
Words containing "banger": gangbangers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "banger" (pronounced ba"nger) |
| 3 | -a" ng er | ganger, hangar, hanger, Sanger. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: graben. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-n-r" | |
-1 letter: anger, barge, began, range, regna. | |
-2 letters: ager, bane, bang, bare, barn, bean, bear, berg, brae, brag, bran, bren, earn, gaen, gane, garb, gear, gnar, grab, gran, nabe, near, rage, rang. | |
-3 letters: age, ane, arb, are, bag, ban, bar, beg, ben, bra, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, gab, gae, gan, gar, gen, nab, nae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-n-r" | |
+1 letter: bangers, bearing, begroan, grabens, rebegan. | |
+2 letters: bandager, bargeman, bargemen, baronage, bearding, bearings, begroans, beraking, berating, bewaring, blearing, breading, breaking, breaming, rebating, sabering, tabering. | |
+3 letters: abnegator, aborigine, aubergine, badgering, bandagers, bannering, bantering, barbering, bargained, bargainer, baronages, barreling, bartering, battering, beavering, bedraping, beggaring, begroaned, bereaving, betraying, bewraying, boogerman, boomerang, brazening, breaching, breakings, breasting, breathing, cambering, debarking, debarring, embarking, embarring, embracing, embrangle, frangible, gabardine, gaberdine, generable, grantable, greenback, habergeon, harbinger, ignorable, jabbering, prebaking, pregnable, rabbeting, rebaiting, rehabbing, subgenera, unbearing, upbearing, yabbering. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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