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Euphemistic swear word, used to avoid giving offence, especially when need arises to curse in front of children.

Derived from the idiom that when something goes wrong it is known as 'throwing a spanner in the works".
SPANNERS!
Spanners by Lord Lucan September 4, 2010
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Spanners I've said it once and I'll say it again. 

1, Verb: The correct response for whenever Spanners says anything/everything acoustic. Most of the time there is no point reminding him of the response.
Spanners: *impersonates Sloth from The Goonies*
Owen: "Spanners I've said it once and I'll say it again."

wanking spanners 

An alternative name for your hands.
obviously used while masturbating.
im away to the toliet to tighten my nuts with my wanking spanners.
wanking spanners by Codiak July 31, 2003

bag of spanners 

A product, device or service that appears to work, but when you look deeper turns out to be a collection of badly thought out and badly implemented ideas that is going to cause you no end of grief.
Have you seen the code they committed today? What a bag of spanners.
bag of spanners by d6y May 23, 2006

Wank Spanners 

1. Your hands
2. What your hands become if you use them to masturbate more than 7 times a day
3. Really big hands
1. on average people have 1.9999' wankspanners
2.I had to see a sex-therapist after masturbating too much and developing wankspanners, the only solution was castration but now I just castrabate
3. Brendan Goodbody has wankspanners (we're talking A4 paper sized hands)
Wank Spanners by Leroy Larger February 7, 2005

bag of spanners 

someone with a really ugly face
shrasa is ok but her sister is a bag of spanners
bag of spanners by turn November 2, 2003

wanking spanners 

Hands contored by exsessive masturbation.
Hairy palms and sticky fingers
By 'ek look at the size of those wanking spanners
wanking spanners by Tight Trousers August 10, 2006
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