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ranga¹

  • /ɹæŋə/ Australia

Rhymes with -æŋə

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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).

noun 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.

Ranga²

proper noun

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

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"ranga." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ranga. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

ranga. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ranga

Chicago

"ranga." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ranga.

BibTeX
@misc{ranga_2026,
  title = {ranga},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ranga},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}