pongo noun. ['pɒŋgǝʊ] Pl. -os. E17.
[Congolese mpongo, mpongi, impungu.]
I.
1. Orig., a large anthropoid African ape, variously identified with the chimpanzee or gorilla; later (mistakenly), the orang-utan. Now chiefly as mod. Latin genus name of the orang-utan. Cf. PONGID E17.

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II. Applied to a person. Usu. derog.

2. a. A marine; a soldier. Nautical slang. E20.
b. An Englishman. NZ & (now rare) Austral. slang. M20.
c. An army officer. Military slang. M20.
d. A black person. slang (racially offensive). M20.

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