Definition of Bible-banger
plural Bible-bangers
also bible-bangers
US, informal
: bible-thumper
- With such freedoms, temptation is ever present, as the Bible-bangers on Sunday television testify.
- —Peter Ustinov, Saturday Review, 13 Dec. 1975
- Theologically, upon his death he would shoot straight to heaven, but I, a Protestant Bible-banger, would need to earn my way over and over again.
- —Susan Campbell, Hartford Courant, 18 Dec. 2001
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Bible-banging
or less commonly bible-banging adjective-
- … a prairie preacher of Wesleyan Methodism, a Bible-banging fundamentalist …
- —Robert S. Anson, Harper's, November 1972
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- As Carrie's Bible-banging mother, Betty Buckley … must play a scene in which she curses and slaps her poor daughter around …
- —Jack Kroll, Newsweek, 23 May 1988
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