Usually means: Render something completely and irreparably broken.
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  1. banjax: Merriam-Webster
  2. banjax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. banjax: Collins English Dictionary
  4. banjax: Wiktionary
  5. banjax: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. banjax: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. banjax, banjax: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. banjax: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Banjax: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. banjax: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (banjax)

verb:  (UK, originally Ireland, slang) To ruin or destroy.
noun:  (chiefly Ireland, informal) A mess or undesirable situation made as a result of incompetence.

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