1657 A. A. Crowther & T. V. F. Sadler Dayly Exercise Devout Rosarists 374 To omit any necessary Ceremonie, or commit any notorious banger, in saying Mass, or administering any Sacrament.

1814 G. Hanger Sporting (fly-leaf) A Sportsman entire—who says nay, tells a banger.

1899 Daily News 23 Sept. 6/3 In London the unfortunate lady banger would have been run in as a nuisance.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xii. 283 They classify their fireworks as ‘bangers’, ‘pretty ones’, ‘hoppers’, and rockets.

1849 (title) The Yale Banger.

1856 Yale Lit. Mag. 21 282 Brandishing a banger above my head, I came on to the stage with a yell.

1906 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 10 May 1 He..has rescued from some museum of Yale antiquities..his old ‘banger’ of student days.

1898 Daily News 25 Jan. 7/3 There were hieroglyphics in the form of crosses for kisses; in one case the cross occupying a very large space..having written against it ‘Oh, what a banger’.

1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder ii. 19 ‘Here—give us a banger first.’ Honeypuss..obediently offered him her lips.

1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 10 Banger, a sausage.

1928 Weekly Disp. 27 May 14 Away they [sc. the boats] go fully laden with men and tea—not forgetting bangers (sausages) to cook after bathing.

1949 M. Dickens Flowers on Grass vii. 182 The chap had bought him tea and bangers and mash.

1959 Times 5 Nov. 13/6 There is..nothing exclusive about the childish use of ‘banger’ for sausage.

1962 B. Knox Little Drops of Blood iii. 82 When we sell a car we've got to take in some old banger in part exchange.

1963 A. Bird & F. Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car Pocketbk. 129 Such cars were thought of insignificant historical interest by comparison with the pre-1905 Brighton Bangers.

1970 Oxf. Mail 24 June (Motoring Suppl.) 5/1 The paintwork may gleam, the highly-polished chromium may sparkle, but beware: the outward appearance may cloak a banger which could prove an embarrassment and a drain on the pocket for the rest of its life.

1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 2 Nov. 5/8 Banger racing driver ‘Dopey’ Don Stevens, who recently won the Dutch Championship, was convicted at Lymington Court yesterday of driving carelessly.

1985 Times 11 Feb. 13/7 It is true though that one misses out on one's husband's early years of struggle: the rented flats,..the third-hand old bangers, the terrifying overdraft.

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 175 One of their old sacred musical instruments..resembled the Negroe-Banger in shape.

1803 J. Davis Trav. U.S.A. 379 My young master..made me learn to play the Banger.

1849 in Amer. Speech (1951) 26 182 About a douzen [sic] negroes..enjoying the innocent amusement of playing the banger.