Kanga

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(Sikhism) A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Sikhism) A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks.
2. A colourful printed cotton garment worn by women in East Africa.
3. (slang) A prison warder.

Example Sentences

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.

‘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.’

The kangas allow me the bottles for my ships.

They will f***ing dangle you, the kangas. [They'll] make it look like suicide.

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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• kangas
• kangha

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