The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mandingos \Man*din"gos\, n. pl.; sing. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
people of the upper Niger region of West Africa, 1620s.
Wikipedia
Mandingo is an American motion picture released by Paramount Pictures in 1975.
It is based on the novel Mandingo by Kyle Onstott, and on the play Mandingo by Jack Kirkland (which is derived from the novel). The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and starred James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, and boxer-turned-actor Ken Norton. It was widely derided when released, although some reviews are positive. It was followed by a sequel in 1976, titled Drum, which also starred Norton.
Sylvester Stallone has an uncredited role.
Mandingo is a novel by Kyle Onstott, published in 1957. The book is set in the 1830s in the antebellum South primarily around Falconhurst, a fictional plantation in Alabama owned by the planter Warren Maxwell. The narrative centers on Maxwell, his son Hammond, and the Mandingo slave Ganymede, or Mede. It is a tale of cruelty toward the black people of that time and place, detailing vicious fights, poisoning, and violent death. The novel was made into a film of the same name in 1975.
Mandingo (born February 25, 1975) is the stage name of a pornographic film actor. He has directed videos for the studio West Coast Productions. One of his recent projects is called Mandingo Massacre.
On April 12, 2013, the New York Post reported that Pornhub had rated Mandingo as the most popular male pornographic actor.
Mandingo is an American theatrical play written by Jack Kirkland and based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Kyle Onstott. The novel was later made into a 1975 film by Paramount Pictures.
Usage examples of "mandingo".
I suggest that we trust our fortunes to Mandingo the three-eyed Goddess of Luck.
Let us put our case to the test here and now, and let Mandingo determine who applies for the position and who stands aloof.
She sang in Yoruban, Congolese, and Mandingo, and even those who did not understand listened to her, enthralled.
He spoke of the chaotic mixing of blood that had gone on since the conquest: Spanish blood with Indian blood, and both of these with blacks of every sort, even Mandingo Muslims, and he asked himself whether such miscegenation had a place in the Kingdom of God.
He moved with subtle tact from Yoruban to Congolese and from Congolese to Mandingo, and she followed suit with grace and fluency.
The Mandingo of the Western Sudan consider that the god of storm and thunder takes earthly shape as a ram.
It was this gold which had built the power of Ghana, and that of the Mandingo empire.
But their eminence dates from Mandingo supremacy and its empire of Mali.
Africa without Egypt was written some time later, the writer was in a position to found his chapter on Mali from information gathered by men who had seen the Mandingo monarch on his way to Mecca.
Other strong peoples besides the Mandingo and the Songhay grew strong enough to nourish wider ambitions than their forefathers and to see the chance of larger and perhaps better ways of life and livelihood.
They spoke a dialect I could understand a little, it being much like that of the western Mandingo who dwell on the coast.
The great Mandingo empire, with its university city of Timbuktu, was in decline, but the Mandingoes were still powerful planters and traders.
The Mandingoes are a smaller race than the others, but they are well disposed and tractable.
Why, they're near as big as Mandingos, some of 'em, an' Mandingos take your sixteen inches, easy.