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Chinaman
noun- an addiction to heroin or another opiate US
- Is getting that Chinaman off his back, too. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 175, 8 December 1948
- You know, man, Win’s just about got the Chinaman off her back! — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 81, 1952
- The Chinaman’s riding you, huh? — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 91, 1958
- She just kicked, she ain’t got to worry about the Chinaman no more. — Donald Goines, Dopefiend, p. 130, 1971
- I would fool with stuff a little bit and I’d see a Chinaman coming–that is, I’d see a habit coming on–and I would back away and smoke reefers for a while, then I’d juice a while. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 180, 1972
- The Chinaman spoke, and it wasn’t a joke / For I knew this was the end. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 84, 1976
- a numbing substance put on the penis to forestall ejaculation TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- in politics, a mentor or protector US, 1973
A term from Chicago, a major cradle of machine politics in the US. - Chinaman (Polit.)–Political sponsor. Your personal clout, your man upstairs. — Bill Reilly, Big Al’s Official Guide to Chicagoese, p. 21, 1982
- Then comes my Chinaman–who is called a rabbi in New York, a mentor in the colleges and a political sponsor elsewhere–Delvin, who has plenty of jobs to give out since the shit has to be kept moving. — Robert Campbell, Junkyard Dog, pp. 7–8, 1986
- an Irishman UK
- — Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy, 1956
- in cricket, a left-handed bowler’s leg-break to a right-handed batsman UK, 1937
Homage to Elliss “Puss” Achong, a 1930s West Indian cricketer of Chinese ancestry. - People go to cricket and find beauty in many things: the church spire, Holding’s unholy run up, the rhodoendrons, Gower’s timing, Sober’s chinaman. — The Times, 15 July 1985
- [H]e batted shrewdly and creatively and his left-arm chinaman and googly bowling is improving at a pace. — Guardian, 27 January 2003
- an unshorn lock on a sheep’s rump NEW ZEALAND
Thought to resemble a pigtail. - — Straight Furrow, 21 February 1968
▶ must have killed a Chinaman
there must be a reason for your bad luck AUSTRALIA
Chinese people have been in Australia from the earliest colonial times and there was formerly great superstition attached to them. Joe Andersen explains: “The sighting of an Oriental person before, during or after placing a bet is always regarded as a sure sign that fortune will smile on you. (A run of bad luck is usually attributed to the killing of one by the unlucky punter”). Today the word “Chinaman” is long dead and persists only in this saying.- — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 58, 1982
- You’ve heard the expression, “You must have killed a Chinaman,” well I’m so out of luck that I reckon in a past life I must have been a tank driver in Tiananmen Square or something because I must have got dozen’s of ‘em. — Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, p. 62, 1995
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