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Meaning of ranga | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ɹæŋə

Definitions

  1. An orange-haired or red-haired person.
    Australia, New-Zealand, derogatory, slang
  2. A locality of Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia.

Examples

“You′re looking down upon ‘rangas’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.”
“2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii, Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country′s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can′t tell.”
“3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.”
“Joy and Lydia and Izzy despised the rest of the girls, from their plucked little threesome, disgusted by Yolanda's hairy calves, the faint down over a lip, Verla's ranga armpits.”
“SID: Yeah, all my friends hate me, I don't know why. MR. INCREDIBLE: Maybe it's because you're a fucking ranga you cockhead. SID: What the fuck did you just say, cunt? MR. INCREDIBLE: I said; ranga. SID: I am not a ranga!”

CEFR level

C2
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