Meaning of kanga | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks.
   Sikhism
2. A colourful printed cotton garment worn by women in East Africa.
3. A prison warder.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“There are some 32 different terms for prison officers, from the humorously affectionate kanga(rhyming slang:kangaroo = screw) and the variants Scooby-Doo and Dr. Who via the mildly confrontational German (as if still the enemy over 50 years after World War II!) to the outright abuse of shit-parcel.”

“So we thought there'd been trouble⟳ over there, maybe all the kangas were getting into mufti.”

“‘Fucking loony bin more like⟳. There's no one sick here, not physically anyway. Don't worry⟳, you'll get⟳ used to it. It's the kangas you want⟳ to watch⟳ out for.‘ ‘Kangas?’ ‘Kangaroo. Screw.’”

“The kangas allow⟳ me the bottles for my ships.”

“They will f***ing dangle you, the kangas. [They'll] make⟳ it look⟳ like⟳ suicide.”

“Even the diversionary fracas on the far side of the room failed to divert him, although the kangas went racing across to deal⟳ with it — there was always some kind of a dust up going on.”

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