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grin·ga

 (grĭng′gə)
n. Often Offensive
A foreign woman in Latin America, especially an American or English woman.

[American Spanish, feminine of gringo, gringo; see gringo.]
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It's the perfect spot for gringos and gringas looking to have some fun and unwind after a long day at work.
Their clothes are also outlandish: in order to correspond to the gringas exotic expectations at the resort they wear tropical shirts and necklaces made of shells as an allusion to a supposed indigenous past.
But Dr Paul Gringas, professor of children's sleep medicine at Evelina London Children's Hospital, which treats 4,000 children every year, told The Gazette that "any danger is incredibly rare" considering one in five kids sleepwalk.
Sin embargo, en otros contextos turisticos peruanos, el vinculo entre sexo y turismo es distinto, y esta unido a la figura del brichero, conocido tambien como "cazador de gringas".
Each one of our personal experience narratives are both "mini-myths" and explanatory cells that allow us to explore the kinds of negotiations we engage in when we are labeled and treated as gringas, paying particular attention to the reflexive politicization of our persons.
Camera (color, widescreen), Tristan Whitman; editor, Andrew McAllister; music, Roger Neill; production designer, Luke Freeborn; costume designer, Jayme Bohn; sound (Dolby Digital), Mark Gringas. Reviewed at Tribeca Film Festival (Discovery), May 3, 2007.
I carried things for him, poles and tackle and the burlap sack that had holes, and sometimes, too, he took the rich Gringos and Gringas in our camp, until the thing happened and he didn't anymore, and I remember it, the unshared, dark look of his face that had things in it I don't want to talk about.
Pediatrics expert Dr Paul Gringas will challenge claims that the MMR injection can cause autism in children.