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Rinches

Rinches
 n.pl.— «If the Rangers organization REALLY wanted to kowtow to their Mexican-American and Mexican illegal audience, they should have put “Los Rinches” on their uniforms. That is the Mexican slang used to put down the Texas Rangers, sort of like calling them “pigs.”» —“Los Rangers” by Bill Michelle Malkin May 6, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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