bunger
/ˈbʌŋə/noun Australian
A firework designed to explode with a loud noise: one of the penny bungers set off a huge bushfire...
- So the pyrotechnics might be limited to a few bungers in the car park.
- No mention of fireworks such as bungers and tom thumbs.
- My father enthusiastically told me once that they had the same bungers when he was a boy and they also called them 'penny bungers'.
Origin
1920s: an alteration of banger.
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