Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in clefts or crevices.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Full of chinks, laden with small cracks or openings
  • adjective derogatory, offensive Full of Chinese persons
  • adjective derogatory, offensive Possessing attributes of, or similar to, a chink or Chinese person, style, or culture
  • noun UK, slang A Chinese takeaway restaurant
  • noun offensive A Chinese person

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Examples

  • 8: 55 - Drummer wearing red Wilco t-shirt ( "wilco" in chinky font) with tiger.

    APAture Live 2008

  • But Sharmila? yeah she is just another "chinky" whose opinions do not count.

    My hero: Kishwar Desai on Irom Chanu Sharmila 2011

  • In it, under the customer's name section, the restaurant employee who rang up the order used the racial slur "lady chinky eyes" to describe her.

    'Lady Chinky Eyes': Papa John's Store Calls Woman Racial Slur In Receipt (PHOTO) (UPDATE) 2012

  • Images of food products and stereotypically chinky things.

    APAture Live 2008

  • Brought me back to my childhood days when kids teased me because of my chinky eyes, pale skin, and black hair. hmmm

    Rejection floreta 2009

  • For the the sauce, keep it chinky and use at least a little olive oil to saute the onions, garlic and to cook the fresh, chunked tomatoes.

    Lengua Recipes 2007

  • Me: ::makes her chonky eyes chinky:: ...ching chong ching chong ching chong...

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • It was a dumb three-minute comedy sketch padded out to ninety minutes with awful chinky-chink and woppy-wop impressions and stupid jokes about bean curds and grabbing asses.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2008

  • You look at Toots and see a speakeasy vet, dense of body, with slicked-back hair and a set of chinky eyes that summon up a warning in a hurry.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • You look at Toots and see a speakeasy vet, dense of body, with slicked-back hair and a set of chinky eyes that summon up a warning in a hurry.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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