(chiefly, _, UK) A motorsport event in which cars race around a track while trying to damage one another.
(chiefly, _, UK) A motorsport event in which cars race around a track while trying to damage one another.
Trouble began when he moved in permanently after having building work done and set up a banger race track.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(chiefly, _, UK) The act of participating in a banger race ("a motorsport event in which cars race around a track while trying to damage one another").
(UK, slang) A decrepit car.
A British slang term for a car that is old, dilapidated, and unreliable — the kind that rattles, backfires, and is held together more by luck than engineering. Typically used affectionately or with resigned humor about a vehicle that has clearly seen better days. 'Banger' on its own is widely used to mean the same thing, while 'old banger' adds emphasis on the vehicle's age. The term is common in everyday British speech and frequently appears in discussions of student cars, first cars, and bargain vehicles.
(chiefly, US) A motorsport event in which drivers compete by intentionally ramming their vehicles into each other in an enclosed arena.
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