subs. (American).—A heavy cane; a bludgeon. [HALL: one of the Yale vocables.]
1854. Yale Literary Magazine, Nov., xx. 75, ‘The College Ghost.’
| A Sophomore gang … | |
| Who, with faces masked and BANGERS stout, | |
| Had come resolved to smoke him out. |
THE BANGERS, subs. phr. (military).—The First Life Guards.
See BANG, verb.
