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单词 bunger
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Definition of bunger in English:

bunger

nounˈbʌŋə
Australian
  • A firework designed to explode with a loud noise.

    one of the penny bungers set off a huge bushfire
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'm convinced the ONLY reason The AFL wants to move the Grand Final to Saturday night is so they can have more penny bungers!
    • Two flares were let off during the game, along with several "bungers" - small fireworks that give off a loud sound.
    • My father enthusiastically told me once that they had the same bungers when he was a boy and they also called them 'penny bungers'.
    • King of the bungers was the “Tuppeny Bunger”, shaped and coloured like a small stick of dynamite.
    • It was a safe atmosphere, with only one or two flares and two bungers going off that were planted.
    • They offered up a few penny bungers that fizzed and flopped.
    • So the pyrotechnics might be limited to a few bungers in the car park.
    • No mention of fireworks such as bungers and tom thumbs.
    • Catherine wheels, rockets and penny bungers have been dumped in favour of a pair of fiscally responsible and po-faced nature lovers hanging precariously in the trees flashing their $2 torches.
    • Some houses apparently had rocks thrown through windows or bungers thrown into their yards at night.

Origin

1920s: an alteration of banger.

 
 
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