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banjaxed
adjective- not in working order IRELAND, 1939
Given fresh impetus in the UK in the 1970s by popular broadcaster Terry Wogan, possibly from the phonetic similarity to the then unacceptable BOLLOCKSED- I couldn’t believe my banjaxed ears. — Ardal O’Hanlon, The Talk of the Town, p. 114, 1998
- In recent days, when I hear the Minister for Transport talking about public–private partnerships to finance the Metro and talking heads on the radio and television telling me how banjaxed the French and continentals are, it is hard to square reality with the rhetoric. — Sunday Business Post, 22 January 2004
- drunk UK
Playing on the sense “not in working order”, SMASHED- — e-cyclopaedia, 20 March 2002
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