banger

noun16

1. •
   A thing or person which bangs, in any sense.
2. •
   A spectacular goal.
3. •
   (slang) A powerfully energetic or exceptional song, especially in hip-hop and dance music.

   • My frequencies are transient and resonate your eardrums / I make bangers, not anthems — 2002
4. •
   (slang) Any particularly good or pleasing thing.

   • When the only problem a game gives me is that I wish there was more of it, I can confidently say it's a banger. — 2025
5. •
   [before a noun] (Internet, slang) A good or popular post.

   • can’t stop getting bangers
6. •
   (UK, slang) A sausage.
7. •
   (slang) An old, worn-out car. From a stereotypical one backfiring, making banging noises.
8. •
   (UK) A firework that makes a bang.
9. •
   One of the rocks that end up crashing against another, making banging sounds, after a throw.
10. •
    (US, slang) Clipping of gangbanger; a member of a gang.

    • Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream. — 2011
11. •
    (US, slang) A car or an engine; referring to the cylinders of an engine in a car. From the explosive bangs on every cylinder firing.

    • He drives a little four-banger to work.
12. •
    (slang) A person who has sex.

    • He is also a former international chick banger. — 2008
13. •
    (UK, slang) A woman's breast.

    • […] yet not only was Gok able to tell her that her 'bangers' were amazing: he buried his head in her cleavage. No other man on television would have been able to get away with that. — 2010
14. •
    (UK, slang) A man's penis.
15. •
    One of the rocks that results in a score at the finish of an end.
16. •
    (slang) A Bangalore torpedo.