bang vs prang

bang

noun
  • An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug). 

  • An explosion. 

  • A sudden percussive noise. 

  • An explosive product. 

  • A thrill. 

  • An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano. 

  • A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n! 

  • An act of sexual intercourse. 

  • A strike upon an object causing such a noise. 

  • strong smell (of) 

  • An abrupt left turn. 

  • The symbol !, known as an exclamation point. 

adv
  • With a sudden impact. 

  • Precisely. 

  • Right, directly. 

verb
  • To inject intravenously. 

  • To hit hard. 

  • To engage in sexual intercourse. 

  • To hammer or to hit anything hard. 

  • To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair). 

  • To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something. 

intj
  • A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc. 

prang

noun
  • Crack cocaine. 

  • A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Cambodia and Thailand. 

  • An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties. 

verb
  • To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle. 

  • To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle). 

How often have the words bang and prang occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )