Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To crash (an airplane, for example).
- transitive verb To damage by colliding with (a car, for example).
- transitive verb To bomb from the air.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated, military slang A bombing raid.
- noun slang, dated An
aeroplane crash. - noun UK, informal An
accident involving amotor vehicle , typicallyminor and without casualties. - noun US, slang
Crack cocaine . - noun architecture A type of
tower orspire featured in someBuddhist temples of Thailand and Cambodia. - verb slang, dated To
crash an aeroplane. - verb intransitive, UK, informal To
crash ; to have anaccident while controlling a vehicle. - verb transitive, UK, informal To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb crash
- noun a crash involving a car or plane
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Khmer lintel over the central "prang" or tower of Sikhoraphum depicting the Dances of Shiva is considered one of the most beautiful in Thailand.
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Pretty much have to stand on my brakes to avoid a prang.
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He'd gone to a prang, as we used to call it, or a 'fatal'.
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But this latest permutation of the Fall's guitar prang, rhythmic swing, wonky electronics and declamatory zeal continues to sound the same, only different to every preceding Fall record, as John Peel once quipped.
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Want me to bring her to ye, or will yis grab it yourself? him thinking, now, prang the boyo, finish him with Mr.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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Two American crows flew around the observatory at Griffith Park, bending metal as they bounced and sang across the grass, their prang calls and black feathers flashing in the sun.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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The devata themselves face east, flanking the entrance to the central prang, or tower.
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Another US submarine had a prang in the Strait of Hormuz.
This is becoming a habit Dave 2009
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Want me to bring her to ye, or will yis grab it yourself? him thinking, now, prang the boyo, finish him with Mr.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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Want me to bring her to ye, or will yis grab it yourself? him thinking, now, prang the boyo, finish him with Mr.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
yarb commented on the word prang
As a verb or noun, this word means to crash (into). E.g. "I was turning right on 5th when some asshat pranged me".
October 27, 2007
skipvia commented on the word prang
Also as in "Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father. Hairy blighter dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie."
October 27, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word prang
.... wow .... *impressed*
October 27, 2007
seanahan commented on the word prang
And confused, I have no idea what that means.
October 27, 2007
skipvia commented on the word prang
"Something up with my banter, chaps?"
It's from a Monty Python sketch, and you probably shouldn't be surprised that you didn't understand it--none of the characters in the sketch understood it either. Rather than trying to explain any more, I'll let you read it yourself.
October 27, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word prang
Ha! Oh, that's lovely!
October 27, 2007
john commented on the word prang
What-ho, Squiffy!
October 27, 2007
skipvia commented on the word prang
Banter's not the same when you say it slower, Squiffy.
October 27, 2007
jdfalk commented on the word prang
Wikipedia has a few relevant articles, but I've primarily heard it as a phatic interjection.
October 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word prang
Haha! I remember that, skipvia! "Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir! Grab your egg-and-fours and let's get the bacon delivered!" Thanks for finding the reference.
October 28, 2007
asativum commented on the word prang
Quite unrelated, also the name of "the Reverend Paul Peter Prang, of Persepolis, Indiana, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church ... His weekly radio address, at 2 P.M. every Saturday, was to millions the very oracle of God. So supernatural was this voice from the air that for it men delayed their golf, and women even postponed their Saturday afternoon contract bridge." -- It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis
January 19, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word prang
"Later, at the police station in the village, the Spitfire pilot paid me a visit. He was with a squadron based at Catterick, and had taken his machine up to check the controls after the mechanics had made a few adjustments. He had not the slightest intention of getting into a scrap that day, he told me, but there we were, Wolfgang and I, suddenly in his gunsights over Haworth. What else could he do?
'Hell of a prang. Bad luck, old chap.' he said. 'Damned sorry about your friend.'"
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley, pp 216-217
May 9, 2010