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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
banger
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
▪ He had an old banger of his own, bought with Philip Arbuthnot's legacy.
▪ Young people often steal the most attractive and new models rather than old bangers.
▪ Well, it was half true, he was checking out an old banger.
▪ They nearly came to scratching each other because Janice says they've only got an old banger.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By the late Sixties, an was an exotic banger.
▪ Collect the matches, banger and coin. 37.
▪ I have known rocks become oblivious to both the old type of scarecrow and its modern equivalent, the automatic banger.
▪ It complements a banger perfectly and will make you forget the November chill.
▪ Light banger with matches. 38.
▪ Magic is more of a banger.
▪ Plus there are adhesive strips, banger strips, mottos and hats - everything you need for a cracking cracker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
banger

British English slang for "a sausage," 1919, perhaps from sense of "a bludgeon," though this is recorded only in U.S. slang.

Wiktionary
banger

n. 1 (context British English): A firework that makes a bang. 2 (context British slang English) A woman's breast. 3 (context British NZ slang English) A sausage. 4 (context slang English) An old, worn-out car. 5 (context US slang English) A cylinder in a car. 6 (context US slang English) A member of a gang, shortened version of the word gangbanger.

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WordNet
banger

  1. n. (British informal) pork sausage

  2. firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing [syn: firecracker, cracker]

Wikipedia
Banger (song)

"Banger" is a song by English grime artist Jme, featuring vocals from Wiley. It was released through Boy Better Know in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2013—peaking at number one hundred and twenty-six on the UK Singles Chart and number thirty on the UK Dance Chart.

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Usage examples of "banger".

Ned yelled as he tugged the pin from his last black banger, lifted the hatch, dropped it down and shut the hatch again.

He was looking up in just the same way as the Germans were when he dropped a black banger on top of them.

Stens, black bangers and the heavy commando knives would carry the day.

The black bangers followed, each man putting a total of four in various pockets.

That evened things up a little both soldiers and gang bangers had targets now.

The bangers claim the shooter took one of their homeboys away with him.

Oliver manoeuvred the car between a van and a delapidated banger, got out and opened her door.

Dort sinnt, in banger Nacht, ein Sklav von fluechtgem Ruhm Von Amt auf Aemter hin.

How could Judd tune in to Billy Joel one day, and the Head Bangers, or whoever they were, the next?

Dinger opened foil sachets of bangers and beans and got them on the go.

Oliver manoeuvred the car between a van and a delapidated banger, got out and opened her door.

I'm telling you, what the Bolshies have done to bangers and mash, blimey, you wouldn't give it to a starving termite.

Aspirin and the Brunei coffee had helped him get over the banger of a headache he’d had this morning, a hangover obtained courtesy of a few whiskey sours with Major Smith after the official reception.

The English girl looked through me, so I turned my attention to my bangers and mash, tepid from the microwave.

I was still hanging around at midnight waiting for someone to take me in Field Briefing, bangers and mash in the canteen when I finally got fed up, then back to square one, thinking I might have been a bloody lemon after all if this was the way they were going to play it.