Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To ruin or destroy.
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- verb UK, slang To
ruin ordestroy . - noun informal A mess or undesirable situation made as a result of
incompetence .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We should bandy like banshees with Ban Ki-Moon to banjax this banefulness, before we go bananas.
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December 15, 2005 03:34 PM so you're sure that Sony didn't banjax your site then?
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A good friend/civvy shooter i know has managed to banjax his (i did'nt ask how) and said i would help him find a replacement.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Nor can Fine Gael rely on him to banjax Brian Lenihan's plans.
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Nor can Fine Gael rely on him to banjax Brian Lenihan's plans.
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A good friend/civvy shooter i know has managed to banjax his (i did'nt ask how) and said i would help him find a replacement.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Nor can Fine Gael rely on him to banjax Brian Lenihan's plans.
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No doubt you're aware that some busy mums find it acceptable to banjax the ankles of anyone who doesn't have the advantage of freewheeling a buggy with a screaming baby in.
Arse End Of Ireland 2009
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There are no hard and fast rules for what "higher level" means, but in general, avoid using an API if there is a chance that it in turn relies on the functionality you are trying to test. you cannot rely on test functions being run in any specific order watch out for caches many TWiki classes cache data, and it can banjax your tests if you are not careful.
TWiki.Codev 2009
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It may well still banjax the Irish hauliers, though.
goborobo commented on the word banjax
Dublin slang - ruin, incapacitate
June 10, 2009