Ok, but what’s a quango?

A BBC Headline says:

"Leaked list suggests 180 quangos to be abolished" (from BBC Web Site)

Inquiring minds want to know, what the heck is a quango? Before you look it up, can you guess? First I thought it was a derogatory word for some ethnic group. Then I thought it might be a currency. Who knows?

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