Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Offensive Threatened expansion of Asian populations as magnified in the Western imagination.
Wiktionary
- n. derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized The alleged threat to Western nations by East Asians, especially Chinese or Japanese people, due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.
- n. derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized East Asian nations or peoples, conceived as threatening.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yellow peril’.
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I Am A Starfish. I Speak With Paint.
List title totally stolen from she. Right, the stock entry for this list should be a two-word phrase where one of the words denotes a colour; even better if the expression has some metaphoric value...
black dog, tangerine dream, orange roughy, blue moon, blackguard, white house, purple rain, grey nurse, green thumb, yellow fever, sacre bleu, palo verde and 159 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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Public List: Lift Every Voice
Vocal techniques.
word shaping, backphrasing, vibrato, scat, coloratura, rubato, falsetto, death growl, overtone singing, harmonic singing, yodeling, ululation and 17 more...
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EN-HU - fun and challenge to translate
Highly descriptive coinages (either in EN or HU) which are difficult to translate between the two languages. If - as a simultaneous interpreter - you get them right on the move, you deserve to be p...
backpfeifengesicht, a wise head on yo..., bad hair day, big cheese, blame shift, cherry picking, intellectual heav..., lack nunchi, schlimazl, cash cow, cherry boy, ass munch and 65 more...
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Loaded Words Part Deux: Two Words Tha...
See also the list Loaded Words (wordnik.com/lists/loaded-words). Two ordinary words (i.e. not proper nouns--Berlin wall or Utah beach wouldn't fit here) that not only combine to make a third concep...
cotton gin, wagon trail, gold rush, democratic republic, wounded knee, wage slavery, rat race, manifest destiny, eminent domain, pork barrel, gateway drug, talking points and 43 more...
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reesetee Haha! Reminds me of the Rocky statue in Philadelphia. It was shuttled from place to place as well. Apr 7, 2008
frindley Ah yes. Not even fun to climb on. Apr 6, 2008
bilby Also nickname of a reasonably well-known sculpture in Melbourne. It was commissioned for the city square and unveiled in 1980. The public hated 'Vault' and pilloried it mercilessly until the city council moved its ugliness to a less prominent location, where graffiti vandals and homeless people at least get some use out of it. Looks like this . Apr 6, 2008
frindley See Giuseppe Concone and his books of vocal studies.
And in slang, they say, a traffic warden (Britain) and a school bus (Quebec).
The older (late-19th and early-20th-century) usage is far less attractive. Ok, positively racist. Apr 6, 2008