Tangerine

See also: tangerine

English

Etymology

From French Tanger (Tangier, Morocco) + -ine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtæn.dʒə.ˌɹin/

Adjective

Tangerine

  1. From, or pertaining to Tangier.
  2. Of or related to Blackpool Football Club.
    • 2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph:
      They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”

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Noun

Tangerine (plural Tangerines)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Tangier.

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