banjax

present singular third person banjaxes · participle present banjaxing · participle past banjaxed · past banjaxed · alternative banjack · alternative bandjax

1. UKslangTo ruin or destroy.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:banjax.

   4 more examples

   I hoofed his backside till he went down all of a heap. That banjaxed his little game. You should have heard his hullabulloo.

   1922, Darrell Figgis, The House of Success, The Gael Co-operative Publishing Society, Ltd., page 146

   Indeed, it seemed that the army was hopelessly banjaxed.

   1928, Eimar O'Duffy, The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street, Macmillan, page 370

   Emma had suggested that you hide, said your presence might banjax her position.

   1970, Edna O'Brien, A Pagan Place, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2001, page 91

   Fraser was looking at the flat, wet countryside and thinking about the French policeman who had banjaxed him with the truncheon.

   2006, Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River, Chronicle Books, page 252

plural banjaxes · alternative banjack · alternative bandjax

1. IrelandinformalA mess or undesirable situation made as a result of incompetence.

   I'm tellin' you the scholar, Bentham, made a banjax o' th' Will.

   1922, Seán O'Casey, Juno and the Paycock