English

Noun

Chinaman ‎(plural Chinamen)

1. (dated, now offensive) A man who is Chinese.
   • 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It, 2007, page 169,

     A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do. […] Any white man can swear a Chinaman’s life away in the courts, but no Chinaman can testify against a white man.

   • 1906, Hubert D. Russell (editor), Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, 1906, 2003, page 251,

     Another favorite pastime of the Highbinder who is usually a loafer, is to levy blackmail on a wealthy Chinaman. […] If it were not that the Chinamen kill only men of their own race and let alone all other men, the citizens of San Francisco would have sacked and burned Chinatown.

   • 1941, George Ade, Stories of the Streets and of the Town: From the Chicago Record 1893 - 1900, reprinted as 2003, Stories of Chicago, page 163,

     In Clark Street, where all the nations of the earth dwell together in harmony, one has but to go downstairs to find a Chinaman. And when found he is washing.

Coordinate terms

• Chinawoman

Derived terms

• John Chinaman
• must have killed a Chinaman

Translations

Anagrams

• chainman

English

Noun

chinaman ‎(plural chinamen)

1. (cricket) A left arm unorthodox spin bowler
2. (cricket) A ball, bowled by a left arm unorthodox spin bowler, with the wrist action of a leg break, but which spins from off to leg for a right-handed batsman
3. (cricket) Or, conversely, such a ball bowled with the action of a googly.

Usage notes

Two of the cricket definitions (2 and 3) are inconsistent, but both are used.

Anagrams

• chainman