"kanga" meaning in English

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        "A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks."
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        "(Sikhism) A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks."
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        "A colourful printed cotton garment worn by women in East Africa."
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  "etymology_text": "From kangaroo, rhyming slang for screw.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "So we thought there'd been trouble over there, maybe all the kangas were getting into mufti.",
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          "ref": "2006 February 9, Kevin Lewis, Kaitlyn, Penguin UK, →ISBN, →OCLC:",
          "text": "‘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.‘\n‘Kangas?’\n‘Kangaroo. Screw.’",
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          "text": "The kangas allow me the bottles for my ships.",
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          "text": "They will f***ing dangle you, the kangas. [They'll] make it look like suicide.",
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          "text": "Even the diversionary fracas on the far side of the room failed to divert him, although the kangas went racing across to deal with it — there was always some kind of a dust up going on.",
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        "(slang) A prison warder."
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          "text": "‘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.‘\n‘Kangas?’\n‘Kangaroo. Screw.’",
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          "text": "The kangas allow me the bottles for my ships.",
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          "text": "They will f***ing dangle you, the kangas. [They'll] make it look like suicide.",
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          "text": "Even the diversionary fracas on the far side of the room failed to divert him, although the kangas went racing across to deal with it — there was always some kind of a dust up going on.",
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