Word: pranged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word "prang," as applied to crashing, is strictly limited. I haven't heard it used for two or three years, but mention of crashes and crashing leads me to a mild rebuke. No mention of our slanguage is complete without mention of our most famous phrasing, and that is the expression "gone for a Burton." When anything or anybody is through for good, it or he is said to have "gone for a Burton." ... If one of your "oppos" (universal term for buddies) is killed, you don't say he was killed, you just say, "Poor...
...will seep into the dictionary is a lexicographer's guess, but some of its catchier terms have already been adopted by groundlings. Among thousands of Americans, "browned off" already means fed up. ("Brassed off" means very fed up and "cheesed off" is utterly disgusted.) To crash is to "prang." To take a "dim view" is to look upon skeptically...