Meanings
ranga1
plural rangas
- AustraliaNew ZealandderogatoryslangAn orange-haired or red-haired person.
2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii, Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country′s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can′t tell.
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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.
2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, unnumbered page3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.
2010, Katrina Nannestad, Red Dirt Diary, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page, Fez′s resolutions: […]Joy and Lydia and Izzy despised the rest of the girls, from their plucked little threesome, disgusted by Yolanda's hairy calves, the faint down over a lip, Verla's ranga armpits.
2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 183SID: Yeah, all my friends hate me, I don't know why. MR. INCREDIBLE: Maybe it's because you're a fucking ranga you cockhead. SID: What the fuck did you just say, cunt? MR. INCREDIBLE: I said; ranga. SID: I am not a ranga!
2018, Aussie Disney (YouTube), Aussie Incredibles
Ranga2
- A locality of Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia.
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Origin
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).
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ranga. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ranga
“ranga.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ranga. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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