Round 3050 RANGA defs - Vote Now!

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Tim Lodge

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Feb 15, 2020, 12:40:51 PM2/15/20
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Here we have 12 imaginative defs of the word RANGA, only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favoutites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Monday 17th February
        10:00 CET
         4:00 AM EST
         1:00 AM PST
        20:00 AEDT in Melbourne
        22:00 NZDT in New Zealand

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

--  Tim L

 *** RANGA***

 1.      the spotted lemur.

 2.      a red-haired person.

 3.      a Nepalese prayer bell.

 4.      Australian slang for corral.

 5.      a tea-picker, from Anglo-Indian.

 6.      a type of yam, purple in colour.

 7.      earmuffs for use on rifle-ranges.

 8.      a poisonous snake native to southeast Asia.

 9.      [_South African_] Indian hemp used as a narcotic.

10.     drone-like accompaniment to the sitar on tabla and tambura.

11.     a form of popular dance music that originated in the black townships of South Africa, characterized by choral singing and prominent basslines played on electronically amplified guitars.

12.     (Print.) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.

Judy Madnick

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Feb 15, 2020, 1:00:08 PM2/15/20
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IMO, it could be all...or none! I'll go with these:
 
 2.      a red-haired person.
 
 5.      a tea-picker, from Anglo-Indian
 
 
Judy Madnick
Albany, NY

Daniel B Widdis

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Feb 15, 2020, 1:25:04 PM2/15/20
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As I’m about to enter Disney’s Animal Kingdom to kick off my winter break vacation, I’ll go for the spotted lemur and the poisonous snake. 1 and 8.

 

Dave Cunningham

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Feb 15, 2020, 4:43:00 PM2/15/20
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10 and 11 just in case it is music about which I know little.

Dave


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Tim B

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Feb 15, 2020, 5:29:22 PM2/15/20
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6 and 10, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

Debbie

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Feb 15, 2020, 5:32:15 PM2/15/20
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9 and one, please.

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Shani Naylor

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Feb 15, 2020, 7:23:19 PM2/15/20
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Asian for me, 3 & 10.

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nancygoat

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Feb 15, 2020, 8:42:17 PM2/15/20
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I'll have 1 and 9 this time.

Nancy

Efrem G Mallach

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Feb 16, 2020, 11:06:12 AM2/16/20
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Like Dave C., I'll vote for the musical 10 and 11.

Efrem

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On Feb 15, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk> wrote:

Here we have 12 imaginative defs of the word RANGA, only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favoutites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Monday 17th February
        10:00 CET
         4:00 AM EST
         1:00 AM PST
        20:00 AEDT in Melbourne
        22:00 NZDT in New Zealand

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

--  Tim L

 *** RANGA***

France International/Mike Shefler

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Feb 16, 2020, 11:19:09 AM2/16/20
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I'll go for the unlikely 7 and 12.
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