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banjax, v. Anglo-Ir. slang.|ˈbændʒæks|
[Etym. unknown; perh. orig. Dublin slang.]
trans. To batter or destroy (a person or thing); to ruin; to confound, stymie. So ˈbanjaxed ppl. a., ruined, stymied.
1939‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-two-Birds 240 Here is his black heart sitting there as large as life in the middle of the pulp of his banjaxed corpse. 1956S. Beckett Waiting for Godot (rev. ed.) 79 Lucky might get going all of a sudden. Then we'd be banjaxed [1954: ballocksed]. 1959D. O'Neill Life has no Price ix. 169, I had the right to leave him talk, I suppose, and banjax us altogether? 1968Observer 29 Dec. 19/1 You completely banjax the whole psychological impact. 1969G. Lyall Venus with Pistol viii. 48 The man is a twit. I mean, he banjaxed that Zurich trip. 1972New Yorker 28 Oct. 40/1 Ha-ha, so she ups and banjaxed the old man one night with a broken spade handle. 1974Nature 22 Nov. 334/1 My sense of enlightenment was somewhat tempered by the banjaxed mood in which I found myself. 1976U. Holden String Horses viii. 102 The dawn suicide the day before had made a lot of work and worry, had banjaxed things for a while. 1979T. Wogan Banjaxed (1980) 78, I am out to banjax the bookies. |