Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. cricket A left arm unorthodox spin bowler
- n. cricket A ball, bowled by a left arm unorthodox spin bowler, with the wrist action of a leg break, but which spins from off to leg for a right handed batsman
- n. cricket Or, conversely, such a ball bowled with the action of a googly.
Examples
“A small, innocuous-looking fish called a chinaman leatherjacket is swarming in Sydney waters, attacking and eating anything that moves, from bare fishing hooks to large marlin.”
“The chinaman is a delivery for left-arm wrist spinners which mimics the right-arm leg spinner's googly - a ball that is difficult to read.”
“I'm not quite pedigreed enough in my marketing background to postulate any sort of coherent theory as to why someone might think glorifying video hos would sell skin cream or how the passé and offensive stereotype of a heavily accented "chinaman" would sell hot pockets.”
“As for Katich his century, which came off just 137 balls and included 13 fours, capped off a fine match after he took 3-34 with his underused 'chinaman' deliveries on day three.”
“A chinaman can call himself a mexican and if you disagree with him you are a racist.”
“What they know for sure is that he was a genius with the ball (a master of deliveries such as the chinaman, the floater, and even the double bounce), and he was in love with a girl called Shirali Fernando (described by one of her competitors as being "shallower than a foot tray").”
The Guardian: Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka – review
“During the 2008 Masters, CBS announcer Bobby Clampett referred to Chinese golfer Liang Wen-Chong as "the chinaman.”
The Huffington Post: CBS's Jim Nantz Condemns Tiger's Language: What Hyprocrisy!
“If you want to live in a country where people have no voice then go to Iran. chinaman”
“Now you are listening to them again, and following them by splitting the Democrat Party!!! chinaman”
“They may as well drive around with "W'08" stickers on the back of their cars. chinaman”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chinaman’.
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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cricket
everything cricket
batswomen, batswoman, batsmen, batsman, backlift, bail, beamer, blockhole, bodyline, bosie, bouncer, boundary and 471 more...
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LWC's Words
spork, heteroskedasticity, kurtosis, eigenspace, smithian, skewness, montanan, whoremonger, mellifluous, fishwife, papist, romanist and 142 more...
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i don't like cricket, i love it
Words without which cricket could not be.
keeper, stumper, bad light stopped..., wicket keeper, rain stopped play, sight screen, bodyline, leg bye, duck, duckworth-lewis, t20, one-day game and 245 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
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vinyl's Words
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daleshipley's Words
brinksmanship, contravene, teleological, sartorial, conventicle, habiliment, tendentious, acrimonious, ontology, epistemology, impugn, dysphasia and 219 more...
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Sportie: Cricket
Wordieworthy jargon from the impenetrable world of cricket.
wicket, on, off, pitch, howzat, stumps, bail, willow, inswinger, outswinger, seamer, duck and 132 more...
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Scriptie: The Shakespearean Language ...
It isn't all about fucking cocksuckers. There aren't too many shows on TV that use Wordie words. (So of course it was cancelled.)
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Tweets
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bilby Cricket jargon - 1. a left-arm wrist spinner; 2. ball bowled by a left-arm spinner that turns in to the right-hand batsman. Nov 30, 2007
abraxaszugzwang "Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please." Feb 18, 2007