Bible-banger
noun
Bi·ble-bang·er
variants
or less commonly 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
Peter Ustinov, Saturday Review, 13 Dec. 1975Theologically, 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
Susan Campbell, Hartford Courant, 18 Dec. 2001
Bible-banging
adjective
or less commonly bible-banging
… a prairie preacher of Wesleyan Methodism, a Bible-banging fundamentalist …
—Robert S. Anson, Harper's, November 1972
Robert S. Anson, Harper's, November 1972
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
Jack Kroll, Newsweek, 23 May 1988
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