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prang out

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To worry, panic; to suffer an anxiety attack.
    UK, slang
  2. To have a bad experience on drugs; to have a freakout.
    UK, slang

Examples

All right, look, don't prang out. They had this paint-party-brunch thing. But I only stayed for 45 minutes, painted a tiny bit of a door, ate half an almond croissant and bounced.”
Anyone who has heard Mr. Skinner's recent album, "The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living" (Vice), will be surprised (and possibly relieved) that he seems to have stopped "pranging out" on cocaine. With precise but conversationally rendered detail, this British M.C. bemoans the downside of stardom and excess: drug-binge paranoia, unfulfilling shopping sprees, […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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