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chinaman
noun 7
Collocations
3ADJ.
disorderly, long, promising, rare, wealthy
CHINAMAN + NOUN
bowling, strength
PREP.
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Definitions
noun
1
A dealer in porcelain (china).
noun
1
A left-arm unorthodox bowling action (left-arm wrist-spin).
Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling.
2
A spin bowler who uses such an action.
3
A ball delivered with such an action.
noun
1
A Chinese person, or person of Chinese descent.
A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do.[…]Any white man can swear a Chinaman’s life away in the courts, but no Chinaman can testify against a white man.
Another favorite pastime of the Highbinder who is usually a loafer, is to levy blackmail on a wealthy Chinaman.[…]If it were not that the Chinamen kill only men of their own race and let alone all other men, the citizens of San Francisco would have sacked and burned Chinatown.
2
A sailing ship of the 18th and 19th centuries engaged in the Old China Trade
3
Addiction from a narcotic, especially heroin.
Chinaman half in and half out of the door. Codeine and goof balls, and complete discouragement.
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Synonyms
noun — (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
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Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling.
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A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chin
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Another favorite pastime of the Highbinder who is usually a loafer, is to levy blackmail on a wealthy Chinaman.[…]If it were not that the Chinamen kill only men of their own race and let alone all oth
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On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant
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