panga

IPA: pˈæŋgʌ

(East Africa, South Africa) A large broad-bladed knife.
Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.
A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia.
A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America.

Examples of "panga" in Sentences

There is a man up the road who specialise in "panga" or machete killings, he says bluntly.
The vessel, a small fishing boat known as a panga, apparently came from Mexico and no drugs were found aboard, authorities said.
We were up early to catch the 45 minute flight to San Carlos where we would pick up a boat or "panga" to take us down the river to
Zuger was floating on an ice chest when one of the Erik's smaller fishing boats known as a panga appeared, listing badly and partially submerged.
He was killed with pipes and 'panga' machetes while sleeping, according to a spokesman for his Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) party.
Not ten feet from where we beach the panga is a pickup bed used as a trash dumpster, and inside lies the rotting carapace of an adult Loggerhead turtle - one that might have been the perfect size for a satellite transmitter.