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- noun Plural form of
West Indian .
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Examples
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England have the swagger and the knowing look certainly and that, as the West Indians and the Australians demonstrated during their ruthless reigns, is how to get the job done because cricket is a teapot of boiling, psychological pressure.
If England become world No1 they must develop the attitude to dominate | Kevin Mitchell 2011
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And we started a magazine for "people of color," a term that was fresh to our ears at the time, in hopes of bringing all the isolated groups together -- African Americans, West Indians, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, even the Chinese dissidents given asylum in our hallowed halls.
Rebecca Walker: How Anita Hill Taught us to Stand Up Rebecca Walker 2011
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And we started a magazine for "people of color," a term that was fresh to our ears at the time, in hopes of bringing all the isolated groups together -- African Americans, West Indians, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, even the Chinese dissidents given asylum in our hallowed halls.
Rebecca Walker: How Anita Hill Taught us to Stand Up Rebecca Walker 2011
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Breaks between overs can force a pause, Indeed, Australia's Merv Hughes once notched up a hat-trick over three overs and two innings, by ending the West Indians' first spell at the crease with the second of the three dismissals.
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"In addition, hundreds of thousands of Indians, Africans, Chinese, and West Indians served in military labor units outside their nations."
"Nation, Race, and Empire," George Robb Victoria Janssen 2010
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This is my gift to her, sharing Jamaican cooking with non–West Indians.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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It gives us poles for our hops; hurdle gates, wherewith to pen in our sheep; and hoops for our washing tubs; and assists to supply the Irish and West Indians with hoops for their pork barrels and sugar hogsheads.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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It gives us poles for our hops; hurdle gates, wherewith to pen in our sheep; and hoops for our washing tubs; and assists to supply the Irish and West Indians with hoops for their pork barrels and sugar hogsheads.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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West Indians, American Indians – these are not ‘Indians’, deliberately using the word “natives” to describe poor, working-class Indian people and then poke fun at their supposed ignorance and supposedly backward customs is extremely disrespectful and appalling.
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West Indians invade Great Britain in their thousands.
Paperback Cover Cavalcade 7 Steve 2009
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