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Chink noun- a Chinese person US, 1878
Derives from “ching-ching”, the phonetic understanding of a Chinese courtesy, adopted as a racist term, now obsolete; this abbreviated, still derogatory, variation is much used in Britain and the US. Variants are “Chinkie” and “Chinky”. - Walking into a den of Chinks as though you owned the place. Wonder you didn’t get raped, and serve you right if you were. — Ruth Park, Poor Man’s Orange, p. 65, 1949
- Liang Shih smokes opium–what Chink doesn’t? — Nevil Shute, In The Wet, p. 28, 1953
- “Sergeant Milligan”, he says, “the chinkies aren’t going to bother us ever again[.]” — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 82, 1959
- “Sometimes a chink or wetback gets into the city with some; it doesn’t last long.” — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 83, 1960
- I’m a Paki, Chink, a half-cocked ponce — Ian Dury, Blackmail Man, 1977
- Only junk comin’ in is with the chinks and niggers, behind them spook Air Force sergeants from Nam. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 169, 1979
- That’s no NVA man. That’s a chink–look at -im, the cocksucker’s six and half feet tall. — Platoon, 1986
- Close up he looked like a light-skinned brother with a little Chinese or something in him. Strange-looking dude, Chink with nappy hair. — Elmore Leonard, Bandits, p. 199, 1987
- “Cheech was the wetback,”I said. “Chong was the chink.” — Shane Maloney, Nice Try, p. 245, 1998
- I would’ve probably been ready to bayonet a couple of Chinks too[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 28, 2001
- a Vietnamese person US
- — Current Slang, p. 15, Summer 1970
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