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kangas

kangas is the plural of kanga.

Meaning of kanga

Noun (1)

kanga (plural kangas)

  1. (Sikhism) A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks.

Noun (2)

kanga (plural kangas)

  1. A colourful printed cotton garment worn by women in East Africa.

Noun (3)

kanga (plural kangas)

  1. (slang) A prison warder.
    • 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.1996, Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, Waterside Press, →ISBN

Questions about kangas

What is kangas the plural of?
Kangas is the plural of kanga.

Words near kangas in the dictionary

  1. kangarooing
  2. kangarooish
  3. kangaroolike
  4. kangaroos
  5. kangaroos in the top paddock
  6. kangas
  7. Kangasala
  8. kangatarian
  9. kangatarianism
  10. kangatarians
  11. Kangayam

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kangas (page history and authors); kanga (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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