Sekirov Dictionary

prang

/ˈpɹeɪ̯ŋ/

noun 5
verb 3
forms 3
phrases 1

noun5

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(UK, informal) An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.
- The typical prang cost a few hundred dollars in panelbeating charges. — 1984
•
(slang, old-fashioned) An aeroplane crash.
- I remember when a call came through that a crop sprayer had had a plane prang down at Naracoorte, in the south-east of South Australia. — 2011
•
A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Cambodia and Thailand.
- The prang is surrounded by walls, which are in turn surrounded by smaller prangs and chedis, some of which are rather precariously supported. — 1995
(slang, old-fashioned) A bombing raid.
(US, slang) Crack cocaine.

verb3

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(UK, informal) To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle.
- “Didn′t bump nobody,” I sneer. “That′s because you were careful,” says the wife. “Your forecast doesn′t say you will prang. It merely says ‘exercise care today,’ which you did.” — 1958
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(slang, old-fashioned) To crash an aeroplane.
- “We have to wear good socks and boots,” said one pilot with a grin, “—as we often prang in the jungle, and have to walk home.” — 1946
•
(UK, informal) To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle).
- Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies. — 2004

forms

pranged · pranging · prangs

Phrases with prang

prang out
To worry, panic; to suffer an anxiety attack.

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