Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also prang in) to attack, to crash one’s car, or plane.

1941		‘The Fortress Song’ in C.H. Ward-Jackson Airman’s Song Book (1945) 137: Prang the ruddy Fortress, / Prang it good and strong.
1941		Philadelphia Enquirer (PA) 19 Oct. 102/3: ‘Prang’ — to damage an aircraft.
1945		West Australian (Perth) 13 Oct. 3/2: The passengers might well congratulate them selves that they were not forced to ‘hit the silk’ or, worse still, that they did not ‘prang’.
1946		G. Gibson Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 151: Charles Kidd had pranged himself in a Manchester. [Ibid.] 216: Prang it good, boys.
1954		E. Hemingway letter 4 Feb. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 829: For your information the 2nd kite (plane) that pranged (crashed) was a little bit bad.
1960		Meanjin Quarterly Mar. (Melbourne) 10: I thought I was going to be sick—that I’d have a blackout and prang.
1970		Current Sl. V:1 17: Prang in, v. To crash an airplane.
1976		D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 198: Car’s pranged.
1999		Guardian Guide 31 July–6 Aug. 13: Everyone is accusing him of pranging Ryan’s car.
2013		K. Sampson Killing Pool 61: Penny Anderson will bring about a mild-mannered crash with Georgie Smallwood’s car. Smallwood will jump out of his newly-pranged car.
2016		D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘[I] lost it on a turn and pranged into a tree’.
2021		D. Telegraph 11 Oct. 🌐 Kelsey Ridings, 26, pranged her Mercedes sports car with four children inside into another car.

2. to break, e.g. an arm, a leg.

1943

Hunt & Pringle Service Sl.

3. in fig. use of sense 1, to crash something down.

1959

M. Brody Low Dive for Lola 13: The ’phone split my eardrum as Thompson pranged the receiver at his end.

4. to have sexual intercourse.

1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
2001		J. Stahl Plainclothes Naked (2002) 170: You know, when you’re not [...] tryin’ to prang me up the butt, you’re not half stupid.

5. (UK black/drugs, also prang out) to have a bad drug experience.

2005		Urban Dict. 29 May 🌐 Pranging. Scared, paranoid or apprehensive.
2017		hubpages.com ‘Roadman Slang 10 Jan. 🌐 Pranging out/bugging out - to have a bad experience on drugs and have a ‘freak out’. e.g. ‘I saw him at Wireless, he was pranging out!’.
2018		Twitter 30 Aug. 🌐 Theresa May’s Robben Island visit is an insult to everyone who actually fought apartheid. She should’ve stuck to dancing like someone who’s pranging out an Creamfields.