prang

Definitions

1. An aeroplane crash.
   countable, dated, slang, uncountable
2. A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Cambodia and Thailand.
3. A bombing raid.
   countable, dated, slang, uncountable
4. An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, informal, uncountable
5. Crack cocaine.
   US, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“2011, Bill Marsh, Great South Australia Stories, HarperCollins Publishers, Australia, unnumbered page, 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.”

“The typical prang cost⟳ a few hundred dollars in panelbeating charges.”

“If people drove like⟳ that in Australia there would be constant prangs.”

“The drive⟳ host⟳, Mark⟳ Day, recalls the sinking feeling as he covered an accident on the Tullamarine expressway and wondered what commuters in Sydney would think⟳ about hearing all the details of the prang.”

“The prang is surrounded by walls, which are in turn⟳ surrounded by smaller prangs and chedis, some of which are rather precariously supported.”

“The second platform surrounds the base⟳ of the prang proper, whose closed entranceways are guarded by four statues of the Hindu god Indra on his three-headed elephant Erawan.”

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