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ranga

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Australia/ɹæŋə/

ranga noun: an orange-haired or red-haired person.

Noun

ranga (plural rangas)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang) 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.2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, unnumbered page
    • 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.2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii

Proper noun capitalized: Ranga

Ranga

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

Examples of ranga in a sentence

  • 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.2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 183:
  • INCREDIBLE: Maybe it's because you're a fucking ranga you cockhead.2018, Aussie Disney (YouTube), Aussie Incredibles

Forms of ranga

pluralrangas

Origin of ranga

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).

Phrases with ranga

Questions about ranga

What does ranga mean?
Ranga means an orange-haired or red-haired person.
How do you use ranga in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is ranga?
Ranga can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ranga?
Ranga is pronounced /ɹæŋə/ (Australia).
What is the plural of ranga?
The plural of ranga is rangas.

Words near ranga in the dictionary

  1. rang true
  2. rang up
  3. rang up the curtain
  4. Rang-ay
  5. Rang-ayan
  6. ranga
  7. Ranga Reddy
  8. rangaku
  9. rangale
  10. Rangamati District
  11. Ranganath

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ranga (page history and authors); Ranga (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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