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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
banjax . - adjective slang
Broken ,ruined ,shattered ;confounded . - adjective slang
Tired ,sleepy ,cream crackered .
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Examples
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Even though it has apparently been around since the 1920's (at least), it's use in the new Star Trek movie allows me to vote for "banjaxed" as word of the year.
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Even though it has apparently been around since the 1920's (at least), it's use in the new Star Trek movie allows me to vote for "banjaxed" as word of the year.
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The writer was Tony Marchant, and he knows his stuff, so I can completely believe that a nice if Adidas-laden convicted murderer, trying to do the halfway hostel thing and finding and loving a job in a garden centre and being shortlisted for promotion, could be banjaxed by his parole officer for a minor… something.
Rewind TV: Sherlock; Endeavour; Public Enemies; New Girl – review 2012
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The lettuce might well have been banjaxed by the monsoon before this, is the torrential rain drove the seeds too far under.
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For others – generally good money managers and child-free – it was enough, and for some – less good managers, or those banjaxed by a sudden change in circumstances or a combination of the two – it was nowhere near.
TV review: My Big Fat Gypsy Christmas; Money; and Imagine: Books - the Last Chapter? 2011
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The balance of power in European football is now so utterly banjaxed as to render product such as this - and "product" is surely what we're dealing with here - almost totally unwatchable.
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Don't overdo or you'll feel knackered or banjaxed.
OpEdNews - Diary: Out of Ireland (8): Nixers, Gurriers and Eejits 2010
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Don't overdo or you'll feel knackered or banjaxed.
Printing: Out of Ireland (8): Nixers, Gurriers and Eejits 2010
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“Well, a bad pixie must be following me around because I am completely banjaxed,” I said, coming straight to the point.
The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007
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Perhaps there was more of a crowd in the streets than was normal, and they remonstrating against the trains and the trams, the qualified things, never on time and the least sign of trouble, banjaxed.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
mrming commented on the word banjaxed
Something that is banjaxed will never function correctly again.
January 16, 2007
ulleskelf commented on the word banjaxed
I've only ever seen this word in print twice. Terry Wogan called a book of his "Banjaxed' in the 1970s/80s (I think the word, like Sir Terry, is Irish). Then Richard Curtis used it in the introduction to the film script for 'Notting Hill'. It's a great word.
October 12, 2007
goborobo commented on the word banjaxed
past participle of banjax - ruin, incapictate
June 10, 2009