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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of prang.
  • adjective UK, slang paranoid

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Examples

  • Drap's younger sister's car was pranged by what is being investigated by Portland State University professors as a meteor strike.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Plus, somebody pranged my car in the parking lot and scarpered, leaving me with a $700 repair bill.

    Is the bus strike coming to an end? « knitnut.net 2009

  • I can see the report for the pranged motor now … Sir I wish to report … ..

    Stop Loving Everything « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • So we have first-hand evidence in this small colonial community formed before the Revolutionary War -- over-populated by deer who get pranged by cars on all our roads at huge expense to insurance companies because of stupid governmental hunting restrictions -- that people eat their own while the fox goes to ground and escapes the hounds as deer have taken over our meadows because hunters with rifles are not allowed hunt.

    George Archibald: Christmas in Middleburg 2008

  • When the car carrying Princess Diana was pranged in the Paris tunnel, killing her and Al Fayed and their driver, the royal family and their very large

    George Archibald: Christmas 2006 2008

  • I winced as Hooplah pranged a black cab, eliciting an explosion of horn parping, and a stream of oaths from its cloth-capped driver, as he scraped against the chassis.

    Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

  • June 27: Dad watched cricket all day and then got smashed drunk and pranged the truck on a police roadblock.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • June 27: Dad watched cricket all day and then got smashed drunk and pranged the truck on a police roadblock.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • “I suppose the poor devil got pranged,” said Jerry.

    Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002

  • No wonder we both snickered when we pranged our landings.

    Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983

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