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

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

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

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

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

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