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Word: banger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Banger-New York Trek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Nab 'Beached Sailor' On Alcoholic Charity Drive | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

...banger-apple polisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Leatherneck Lingo | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...track tout, who refers to himself as a "ducat hustler." From Muggsy and associated sources, the scripters found to their dismay that in 1941's "jellybean jargon" a country boy was no longer a yokel, but a "loose tooth"; a dollar, no longer a buck, had become a "banger"; "cooking with gas" meant perfect understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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