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• n  a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation

• All have been long, narrow panga-style fishing boats with outboard Yamaha motors.
• The terrorist swung his panga at the child's curly head and all but decapitated the boy.
• There was a time when Kenyans solved their political problems with the panga, a two-foot-long bush knife that the Man Mau terrorists wielded to bloody effect against British.

• machete
• matchet

News & Articles

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• Caught on Tape: Chase with drug smuggling boat
  A wild chase at sea as the Coast Guard seizes a super panga and is was all captured on video.
  June 7, 2013 - Channel 8 San Diego
• 14 suspects plead not guilty in Montaña de Oro panga boat bust
  The 14 people who allegedly tried to smuggle $1.3 million worth of marijuana in a panga boat found off Montaña de Oro State Park will appear in court again June 12.
  June 6, 2013 - The San Luis Obispo Tribune

Quotes

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• Bipasha Basu in South Asian Women's Forum
  But when the crowds descended on me, the security withdrew. I don't blame them. They didn't want to take a panga with the locals,Bipasha told TOI.
• Chetan Bhagat in Times of India
  You're a fellow Punjabi so you know what the word 'panga' means. You look like the kinda guy who takes pangas,said Chetan Bhagat, India's pop fiction writer and youth icon, to Mohammed Hanif, Pakistani writer who painted a satirical picture...
• Uhuru Kenyatta in Standard
  We have a duty to end this menace. However deep the problems of our youth could be, the solution is not in taking a panga against others,said Uhuru.