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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The mangrove; -- so called in the Pacific Islands.

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Examples

  • No apology can undo the harm Mike Huckabee has done. tongo

    Huckabee jokes about Obama ducking a gunman 2008

  • He had been dealing with the Cardassians—and the gelatinous Odo—long enough to have developed a reasonably effective tongo face.

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • Artran vainly tried to change over a computer screen before Odo could see the tongo cards displayed on it, but he was too late.

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • The shape-shifter had the expression of an addicted tongo player calculating the odds of calling a successful roll.

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • Artran vainly tried to change over a computer screen before Odo could see the tongo cards displayed on it, but he was too late.

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • The shape-shifter had the expression of an addicted tongo player calculating the odds of calling a successful roll.

    THE FALL OF TEROK NOR 2000

  • He had been dealing with the Cardassians—and the gelatinous Odo—long enough to have developed a reasonably effective tongo face.

    THE FALL OF TEROK NOR 2000

  • So the lurid green, pink, and yellowsymbol of the Cardassian Union, which looked to Quark like some improbable combination of the hooded Smiling Partner of Ferengi legend and a short-handled screwdriver, had remained proudly in place—until Gul Dukat had swaggered in one day to announce he had just won a spectacular work of rare and valuable art in a latenight game of tongo.

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • So the lurid green, pink, and yellow symbol of the Cardassian Union, which looked to Quark like some improbable combination of the hooded Smiling Partner of Ferengi legend and a short-handled screwdriver, had remained proudly in place—until Gul Dukat had swaggered in one day to announce he had just won a spectacular work of rare and valuable art in a late-night game of tongo.

    THE FALL OF TEROK NOR 2000

  • The shape-shifter had the expression of an addicted tongo player calculating the odds of calling a successful roll.

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

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