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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for person of Chinese birth or descent.

Wiktionary

  1. n. slang, offensive A Chinese person.

Etymologies

  1. Alteration of Chinese (Wiktionary)
  2. Probably alteration of Chinese. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • Chink is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society.”

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  • “As are many of the best and worse contributions to the human race, the Chink is Japanese.”

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

  • “I am Japanese gentleman, and the word Chink is not fit to be spoke.”

    What Happened to Hayakawa

  • “The Chink is busy all the time, and he keeps the ground just as busy.”

    Chapter 11

  • Chink" - a name for a person of any East Asian origin, associated with deviousness, take-home catering and cowardliness”

    Resist racism

  • “The Chink is a ship's cook, and the nigger belongs to me.”

    Chapter 16

  • “In the given situation of a man alone on an island, the company of a Chink was a very good reason.”

    Victory

  • “There are just too many half-cooked ingredients in this utopian stew of a movie: the gender-bending Countess (John Hurt), who markets feminine-hygiene products; the cave-dwelling guru called The Chink (Noriyuki "" Pat '' Morita); Delores (Lorraine Bracco), who leads the cowgirl revolt at the Rubber Rose Ranch, run by Miss Adrian (Angie Dickinson); Bonanza Jellybean (Rain Phoenix), the lesbian cowgirl with whom Sissy finds true love, and lots more.”

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  • “As they hear, now and again, wanderers far above them calling, "Chink," one to another, they know the bobolinks are on their way to a land that lies south of the Amazon, and that neither sleep nor darkness bars their path, which is open before them to take when and where they will.”

    Bird Stories

  • “All he said was, "Chink," in the same matter-of-fact way that his bobolink forefathers had spoken, back through all the years when they, too, had taken this same flight over sea in the course of their vagabond journey.”

    Bird Stories

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