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  • bang-bang
    [from a reduplication of bang, perhaps converging with similar African echoic words for striking, e.g. Twi bàm or Hausa bam
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  • banalong
    /béyngalohng/ [cf. W Car. bangarang noise, disturbance DJE; cf. Wolof baŋka, Hausa baŋke to collide (Turner 1949:60) perhaps converging with
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  • banana water
    [W Car.] n. the water in which bananas have been boiled, drunk as a beverage. (Black)
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  • banana tree
    in the phrase: People don't kill banana tree; banana tree kill theyself: People create their own problems. (Black)
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  • banana spider
    [W. Car.; often found among bananas DJE] n. a large spider, Heteropoda venatoria, resembling the tarantula, usually called GROUND SPIDER.
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  • banana hole
    (Gen.), banana bottom (Mayag.) [from agricultural use; see quot.] n. a deep, natural hole found in limestone: 1889 [a plant]
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  • banana bird
    [W Car, different sp.] n. 1. a bird, the banana quit or honeyereeper (Coereba flaveola): 1880 Banana bird. . .
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  • bamsookie
    /bamsúki/ [etym?; cf. Jam. bam sukey sound suggesting a sudden action DJE] n. a word or action which effectively ends
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  • bamboo shaker
    [cf. SHAKER musical rattle] n. a kind of rattle: 1975 A piece of bamboo tree trunk with a natural stopper
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  • bamboo
    (Andros, Long); bamboo mast, bamboo raft (Andros); bamboo pole (Inagua); bamboo sisal (San Sal., Mayag.); bamboo tree (Adelaide) [from the
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