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ranga

noun
/ɹæŋə/

Etymology

Extracted from (o)rang(utan), with -er suffix; in use since 1990s; to a certain extent popularised by the ABC television show Summer Heights High (2007).

Definitions

  1. An orange-haired or red-haired person.

    • 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.
    • 3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.

  2. A locality of Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA