pp. Using a large number of contiguous nouns.
1991
We often see noun-banging in titles:
The Texas Probable Future Competition Cases and the Transformation of the Bank Expansion Movement, 24 Antitrust Bull. 395 (1989).
The Texas Probable Future Competition Cases and the Transformation of the Bank Expansion Movement, 24 Antitrust Bull. 395 (1989).
1986
Noun adjuncts are nouns used to function as adjectives. as in telephone operator, truck driver, laboratory window. They are common and useful in English, but "noun-banging" can produce stuffiness, even gobbledegook, stringing noun adjuncts together: a chemistry laboratory equipment storage locker key.
1971 (earliest)
noun-banging The stringing together of nouns used attributively.
"The party platform committee rules argument" is the noun-banger’s way of describing an argument over the rules of debate between members of a committee assembled to write the platform of a political party.
"The party platform committee rules argument" is the noun-banger’s way of describing an argument over the rules of debate between members of a committee assembled to write the platform of a political party.