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  • verb Present participle of prang.

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Examples

  • Coren's also not having a very good holiday as his latest dispatch concerns pranging his car.

    Diary 2010

  • I had felt pretty good after breakfast, but by ten o'clock I was pranging the Huey again.

    Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983

  • Had he let the nanny take more time over the manoeuvre, she would probably have accomplished it better than he managed to - ie without slightly pranging the car in front.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph View 2012

  • Highlights of this period included getting a company car (a Ford Anglia), suites at the Dorchester Hotel after trade shows at Earls Court and driving the boss's gold Bentley (which he admits to pranging once).

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Had he let the nanny take more time over the manoeuvre, she would probably have accomplished it better than he managed to - ie without slightly pranging the car in front.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph View 2012

  • Then brief him on the basic differences between driving the track at Indy, and moving in 3 dimensions using pitch, yaw and roll, and how if he tries to take the first turn the way he used to, he's going to get a valuable lesson in roll, as well as in pranging.

    freshnews.org - most clicked links 2010

  • I wanted to stay and go to the bliss party downstairs because I peeked into it and the cheap time guys were all on the stage pranging out with a bunch of hotties and a weird bald dude [4] but my sister says we gotta get home before midnight or stepmonster will be verklempt.

    Comments for BrightestYoungThings 2010

  • Coren's also not having a very good holiday as his latest dispatch concerns pranging his car.

    Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • When they try to turn left and end up pranging*, they can blame the IT department for not falling into line with the business model.

    freshnews.org - most clicked links 2010

  • Risbury, Herefordshire - (ReUterus & Sordid Ass Mess): Former brothel madam Lindi St Clair spent nearly 24 hours upside down in a fetid contaminated ditch after pranging her motor down a ravine according to West Mercia reports.

    TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page 2009

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