SINCE 1828
Bible-banger
noun
Bi·ble-bang·er
variants:
or less commonly bible-banger
plural Bible-bangers
also bible-bangers
Definition of Bible-banger
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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