bangarang
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole bangarang.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bangarang (countable and uncountable, plural bangarangs)
- A commotion.
- 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 665:
- —It funny how nobody come to check out what going on, specially with all the bangarang going on in here.
- A disturbance or argument.
- Rubbish; miscellaneous items.
Further reading edit
- OED (online) 2007