What's the difference between banger and wanger?

Banger


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There's an extraordinary array of high performance models that can do almost anything, but there's also a lot of clapped-out old bangers from the former communist bloc that can leak, break down and possibly even explode.
  • (2) When I speak to Win Butler's younger brother, Will, keyboardist, synth player and drum banger, he says: "Every so often someone will say we're the new U2, but we really make some pretty weird music a lot of the time.
  • (3) Marisol was a topless waitress before drugs fried her brain, Becky was a nurse, despite being raped at 14, before she killed someone and was jailed, and another man was a serious gang banger.
  • (4) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
  • (5) These high-octane bangers were among the show's strongest moments, allowing both performers to bask in their own unapologetic confidence.
  • (6) When two previously separate parties come together as smoothly as bangers and mash or apple pie and custard, your only thought is “Why the hell didn’t we do this before?” But if your company’s apple pie is in fact an incredibly complex bit of technological kit which is designed, manufactured and marketed as part of a global enterprise, and the accompanying custard in the metaphorical partnership is a small company thousands of miles from your headquarters, putting the two together isn’t quite so straightforward.
  • (7) Ben Hayoun is in talks with publishers regarding a series of Disaster Playground books, and a concert from Ed Banger Records, which provided the soundtrack, is also planned.
  • (8) Anyway, as anyone with ears can hopefully tell, Vermillion is a very good song; the sort of sophisticated, slowly blossoming emo-banger that usually gets the music blogosphere all hot under the collar.
  • (9) As historical sagas go, the book itself is a banger.
  • (10) A comparison of the ages at which 12 "milestones" first appeared supported the hypothesis of developmental precocity for the body rockers and the head bangers, but not for the head rollers.
  • (11) Clean Bandit and Jess Glynne: Rather Be A nonpartisan banger to be used over shots of traditional British life: rolling hills, old person waving flag, policeman dancing at Notting Hill carnival, Clean Bandit popping champagne corks at this song’s 8,000th sync etc.
  • (12) Dan Snaith looks as if he’s about to deliver an informed running commentary on Istria’s Roman remains; instead, he pulls up the fader on another tropical disco banger and a boatload of expectant ravers go politely bananas.
  • (13) The kitchen serves Asian dishes as well as some foreign favourites – from Mexican tacos to bangers and mash.
  • (14) Being categorised by the World Health Organisation as a cause of cancer might be bad enough, but being lumped in with English bangers and bacon has prompted a particularly outraged response from the guardians of Italy’s sacred tradition of Parma ham.
  • (15) Two procedures were used to compare the effects of differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) and differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI) on self-injurious behavior (SIB) of three profoundly retarded head-bangers in a multiple-schedule within-subjects design.
  • (16) Fourteen were head bangers, of whom two had cavum septum pellucidum.
  • (17) Tadashi Arashima, its chief executive, warned that the various "cash-for-bangers" programmes set up by European governments have artificially fuelled sales in recent months.
  • (18) We have lunch – bangers and slightly cold mash – at the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s rundown and soon-to-be-redeveloped rehearsal space in Maida Vale.
  • (19) What to buy: Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans will be released by Ed Banger on 14 February 2010.
  • (20) The sausages are a nominally seasoned plain pork (the correct banger for breakfast), the bacon is excellent, the fried egg bright and fresh.

Wanger


Definition:

  • (n.) A pillow for the cheek; a pillow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "There comes a time during the making of a movie when the actors become the characters they play," Wanger noted in his diary.
  • (2) Taylor was in London where she was completing Suddenly, Last Summer (in which she brilliantly played Katharine Hepburn's mentally-disturbed niece), when the producer Walter Wanger offered her the title role in Cleopatra.
  • (3) In 1939 Schulberg was hired by Walter Wanger to develop a screenplay for United Artists, set at the annual Dartmouth winter carnival.
  • (4) But the patients showing high levels of 6KPG in the acute stage showed lower levels of CPK and lower Wanger's QRS score than the patients showing low levels of 6KPG.