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kanga
noun 3
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3ADJ.
affectionate
KANGA + NOUN
kangaroo, slang
ADV.
humorously
Definitions
noun
1
A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks.
noun
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A colourful printed cotton garment worn by women in East Africa.
noun
1
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.
So we thought there'd been trouble over there, maybe all the kangas were getting into mufti.
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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 Ger
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So we thought there'd been trouble over there, maybe all the kangas were getting into mufti.
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‘Fucking loony bin more like. There's no one sick here, not physically anyway. Don't worry, you'll get used to it. It's the kangas you want to watch out for.‘ ‘Kangas?’ ‘Kangaroo. Screw.’
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