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COOLIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coolie mean? 

COOLIE (noun)
  The noun COOLIE has 1 sense:

1. (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborerplay

  Familiarity information: COOLIE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COOLIE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coolie; cooly

Hypernyms ("coolie" is a kind of...):

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

Domain usage:

depreciation; derogation; disparagement (a communication that belittles somebody or something)

ethnic slur (a slur on someone's race or language)


 Context examples 


Yes, the coolies used to do some squealing towards the end.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is a coolie disease from Sumatra—a thing that the Dutch know more about than we, though they have made little of it up to date.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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