Prang

Quick meaning: Prang is a noun meaning (US, slang, uncountable) Crack cocaine.

Meaning

(US, slang, uncountable) Crack cocaine.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, chiefly Australia and New Zealand, UK, informal) To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle.
2. (architecture) A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Cambodia and Thailand.
3. (transitive, chiefly Australia and New Zealand, UK, informal) To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle).
4. (slang, dated) An aeroplane crash.
5. (dated, military slang) A bombing raid.
6. (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.
7. (slang, dated) To crash an aeroplane.

Example Sentences

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

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

Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.

“We have to wear good socks and boots,” said one pilot with a grin, “—as we often prang in the jungle, and have to walk home.”

Word Forms

• prangs
• pranging
• pranged

Synonyms for prang

Depending on context, synonyms include bingle, collision, crash, fender-bender.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aircrash, crash, crackup, snarge, crasher, parabombing.

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