prangs

Noun (1)

prang (countable and uncountable, plural prangs)

1. (dated, slang) An aeroplane crash.
   • 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.2011, Bill Marsh, Great South Australia Stories, HarperCollins Publishers, Australia, unnumbered page
2. (dated, slang) A bombing raid.
3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.
   • The typical prang cost a few hundred dollars in panelbeating charges.1984, Ian Manning, Beyond walking distance: The Gains from Speed in Australian Urban Travel, page 105

   Synonyms:

   collision, crash, bingle, fender-bender, shunt

4. (US, slang, uncountable) Crack cocaine.

Noun (2)

prang (plural prangs)

1. A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Cambodia and Thailand.
   • The prang is surrounded by walls, which are in turn surrounded by smaller prangs and chedis, some of which are rather precariously supported.1995, Joshua Eliot, Thailand and Burma Handbook 1996, page 216

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