Meanings
bantersaurus rex1
plural bantersaurus rexes
- Alternative letter-case form of Bantersaurus Rex.
If I was a dinosaur, I'd be a bantersaurus rex.
2013, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Downturn Abbey, Penguin, →ISBN, page 1442 more examples
The guvnor that served up my chicken was a right bantersaurus rex, and we were chatting shit like we were in marbs.
2015 July 14, Tom Warren, “I just got a cheeky Nando's and rode the banter bus with Apple Pay”, in The VergeSwann – perhaps muted by the fact that this is all taking place in the middle of the night – is less of the bantersaurus rex that we find on Test Match Special and shows off instead the analytical side of his game.
2016 November 6, Alan Tyers, “BT Sport cricket coverage looks young and fresh with KP, Ricky Ponting and Michael Vaughan”, in The Telegraph
Bantersaurus Rex2
plural Bantersaurus Rexes
- humorousslangA person full of witty banter.
And there's always one massive Bantersaurus Rex show-off contestant hogging Noel's attention.
2014 August 23, Grace Dent, “Grace Dent on TV: When two tribes went to war all you got was Richard Osman’s first flop”, in The Independent3 more examples
He believed himself to be the most banterous emoji in Emojitown, referring to himself as a 'bantelope', the 'Bantersaurus Rex', and One time even 'Banter Claus'.
2016, Emoji: Laughing Crying (An Official Emoji Story)If it saw itself in the mid-nineties as a Bantersaurus Rex with a Liam Gallagher haircut and simian gait, by the second decade of the twenty-first century it wanted drinkers to see it as some combination of George Clooney and Professor Brian Cox.
2017, Pete Brown, Miracle Brew: Hops, Barley, Water, Yeast and the Nature of BeerThe 34-year-old is expected to be the life and soul of the camp with his big personality and humour, which has seen him being labelled the Bantersaurus Rex of rugby.
2019 November 17, “I’m A Celebrity’s James Haskall says he won’t miss sex with wife Chloe Madeley in the jungle because he’ll be too hungry”, in The SunSynonyms: Archbishop of Banterbury
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person full of witty banter.
Origin
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