🌭 A pork sausage 🎵 A catchy song 🎆 A loud firework

banger

6 8.2

A pork sausage often served with mashed potatoes

noun
/ˈbæŋə/

: salchicha

Here we have roast beef and Yorkshire pudding... ...bangers and mash and the ever-popular spotted dick.
bangers and mash
bangers (pork sausage)
bangers and eggs

You got some butter and bangers in your mash?

Examples

During the British festival, I enjoyed a delicious banger served alongside creamy mashed potatoes.
I'm a massive fan of both fish and chips and bangers and mash.
And make sure you get the banger and the beans.

Holmes & Watson (2018)
In England, we call them bangers.

Boat Trip (2002)
You got some butter and bangers in your mash?

The Basement Yard
Tomorrow on the show, Colleen will make the British classic bangers - and mash, with chef Gordon Ramsay.

Morning Glory (2010)
On cold nights, nothing beats a plate of banger and mash topped with rich gravy.
For breakfast, I had a traditional English fry-up that included eggs, toast, and a flavorful banger.

Synonyms

sausage

vsbanger

184 1.0

A food made from ground meat and spices in a thin skin

is a British informal pork type often served with mashed potatoes

brat

vsbanger

22 5.0

A small pork sausage like a bratwurst

is typically larger and often served with mashed potatoes

frankfurter

vsbanger

3 2.0

A smooth, smoky sausage of pork or beef often served in a bread roll

is a British pork type served with mashed potatoes rather than in a roll

Surface Forms

banger singular

bangers plural

Morphology

banger = bang (opaque) = bang + er

Although it is historically related to 'bang' + '-er', the sausage meaning is lexicalized and not a straightforward compositional meaning for most learners.

Etymology

Banger as a sausage is British slang and one popular story says the name comes from sausages sometimes bursting with a small 'bang' when they were cooked. So calling a pork sausage a banger reminds people of that loud pop and its simple, homely food sense.