NOUN | food | banger | (British informal) pork sausage |
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artifact | banger, firecracker, cracker | firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing |
Sounds | bae'nger | |
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Rhymes | binger ... zinger: 28 rhymes with nger... |
Meaning | (British informal) pork sausage. | |
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Region | United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain | A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles |
Broader | pork sausage | sausage containing pork |
Usage of | colloquialism | A colloquial expression |
Meaning | firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing. | |
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Synonyms | firecracker, cracker | |
Narrower | cannon cracker | A large firecracker |
cherry bomb | A red ball-shaped firecracker with high explosive power | |
whizbang, whizzbang | A firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing / whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion | |
Broader | firework, pyrotechnic | (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames |
Spanish | petardo, piola, traca, triquitraque | |
Catalan | correcames, petard, traca | |
Verbs | bang | to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound |
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