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Meaning of mangas | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A type of cocky, working-class man in early twentieth-century Greece, associated with violent behaviour, alcohol and hashish, and celebrated in various folk songs.

historical

Equivalents

Ελληνικά μάγκας
Français mangas
Português mangas

Examples

“Impoverished, disenfranchised, the mangas lived by petty crime and occasional labor.”
“The mangas was expected to cock a snook at authority, to be quick with a knife and ruthless in avenging insult.”
“Many characters in long-running mangas grow up as their audiences do: they get married, raise children, and so on.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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