prang

Definition

An aeroplane crash.

Etymology

Originally World War II Royal Air Force slang; probably imitative.

Example Sentences

• "2011, Bill Marsh, Great South Australia Stories, HarperCollins Publishers, Australia, unnumbered page, 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."
• "The typical prang cost a few hundred dollars in panelbeating charges."
• "If people drove like that in Australia there would be constant prangs."