bangie, noun

Origin:: EnglishShow more bang + English suffix -ie (forming nouns used informally).

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In urban (especially township) slang: a coward. Cf. bangbroek.

1973 P. Becker in The 1820 Vol.46 No.7, 32A better-type shebeen is where ‘Bangies’ hang out, as the tsotsis say, referring to the customers who go there in groups, for fear of clashing with teenage thugs.

a coward.

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bangbroek, nounn.banket, nounn.

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