chink

  • 51chink in someone's armour —    If someone has a chink in their armour, they have a weakness that other people can take advantage of.     The candidate s opponents are busy looking for chinks in his armour …

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  • 52chink shell — noun : chink I 4 …

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  • 53Chink — noun or adjective Etymology: perhaps alteration of Chinese Date: 1887 usually offensive Chinese …

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  • 54Chink — /chingk/, n. (sometimes l.c.) Slang. (disparaging and offensive). a Chinese. [1900 05; earlier Chinkie appar. alter. of CHINA, CHINESE by assoc. with CHINK1 (from the stereotypical Western image of Chinese as narrow eyed); see IE] * * * …

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  • 55chink up — verb To fill cracks in something, for example a wall …

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  • 56Chink — noun A Chinese person. Syn: Chinaman, gook …

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  • 57chink — Synonyms and related words: abysm, abyss, aperture, arroyo, assailability, bar, bezel, bind, block, block up, blockade, box canyon, breach, break, broach, bump, bung, canyon, cash, caulk, cavity, chamfer, change ringing, chap, chase, chasm, check …

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  • 58Chink — (racist) (sometimes lower case) a Chinese person …

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  • 59chink — Australian Slang (racist) (sometimes lower case) a Chinese person …

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  • 60chink — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. crack, rift, fissure, cleft; soft spot. See brittleness, weakness. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. opening, slit, fissure, crack, crevice, cleft, hole, gap, rift. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A… …

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