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Chinese ace
noun
a pilot who makes a landing with one wing lowered; a pilot who has a reputation for crashing planes on landing US, 1928 After CHINESE LANDING.- — Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 100, 1960
- — Maledicta, p. 156, 1979: “A glossary of ethnic slurs in American English”
- He called me a “damned Chinese ace”–a term developed from the reputation Chinese pilots had in those days for crashing more of their own planes than they shot down of the enemy’s. — Carroll V. Glines, I Could Never Be So Lucky Again, p. 51, 1991
- A “Chinese ace” was someone who accidentally managed to destroy five planes belonging to his own air force. — Winged Victory, p. 384, 1993
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