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The word tanghiste is the plural of tanghista, an adaptation from the Spanish tanguista, "tango dancer". Since Argentina and Uruguay (tango homeland) have a huge amount of from Italian descent and Italian speaker population, it is not strange at all that the word has appeared in Italian.

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It is possible that someone is now using tanghista in relation with tanga (just as in Spanish tanguista), but the main meaning is related with the tango.

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