mangas

plural manges

1. historicalA type of cocky, working-class man in early twentieth-century Greece, associated with violent behaviour, alcohol and hashish, and celebrated in various folk songs.

   Impoverished, disenfranchised, the mangas lived by petty crime and occasional labor.

   2016, Jane K Cowan, Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece, page 174

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   The mangas was expected to cock a snook at authority, to be quick with a knife and ruthless in avenging insult.

   2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 172

1. pluralplural of manga

   Many characters in long-running mangas grow up as their audiences do: they get married, raise children, and so on.

   2006, Chi Hang Li, Chris Patmore, Hayden Scott Baron, Complete Guide to Anime Techniques