"tongo" meaning in Spanish

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  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tongos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "tongo m (plural tongos)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "_dis": "65 35",
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          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "tongonear"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1993, José Luis Benítez, Chafanto, o, El encuentro de la imagen sobre el espejo mágico",
          "text": "La política es un tongo que se cree en el sublime derecho, pero divino derecho, de ser atendida, escuchada y alabada, y que piensa que todo el mundo trabaja para su exclusivo fin. A cambio de ello, ofrece miseria y padecimiento[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Another farce in the electoral debate. Rajoy and Rubalcaba made a pact not to talk of corruption.",
          "ref": "2015, Federico Jiménez Losantos, Los años perdidos de Mariano Rajoy",
          "text": "Otro tongo en el debate electoral. Rajoy y Rubalcaba pactaron no hablar de corrupción.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fraud; farce"
      ],
      "id": "en-tongo-es-noun-Z3GKi8U6",
      "links": [
        [
          "fraud",
          "fraud"
        ],
        [
          "farce",
          "farce"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) fraud; farce"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tongo"
}

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      "expansion": "Uncertain",
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  "etymology_text": "Uncertain",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tongos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tonga",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tongas",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
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          "name": "Panamanian Spanish",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "police officer; cop."
      ],
      "id": "en-tongo-es-noun-teLNhMtz",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "police officer",
          "police officer"
        ],
        [
          "cop",
          "cop"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Panama, slang, derogatory) police officer; cop."
      ],
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        "masculine",
        "slang"
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    }
  ],
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    "Spanish masculine nouns",
    "Spanish nouns",
    "Spanish terms with unknown etymologies"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "tongonear"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
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    {
      "form": "tongos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1993, José Luis Benítez, Chafanto, o, El encuentro de la imagen sobre el espejo mágico",
          "text": "La política es un tongo que se cree en el sublime derecho, pero divino derecho, de ser atendida, escuchada y alabada, y que piensa que todo el mundo trabaja para su exclusivo fin. A cambio de ello, ofrece miseria y padecimiento[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Another farce in the electoral debate. Rajoy and Rubalcaba made a pact not to talk of corruption.",
          "ref": "2015, Federico Jiménez Losantos, Los años perdidos de Mariano Rajoy",
          "text": "Otro tongo en el debate electoral. Rajoy y Rubalcaba pactaron no hablar de corrupción.",
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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        ],
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          "farce",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(colloquial) fraud; farce"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tongo"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tongos",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tonga",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tongas",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
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        "Panamanian Spanish",
        "Spanish derogatory terms",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "police officer; cop."
      ],
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          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "police officer",
          "police officer"
        ],
        [
          "cop",
          "cop"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Panama, slang, derogatory) police officer; cop."
      ],
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        "Panama",
        "derogatory",
        "masculine",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tongo"
}