chinaman

1. 1.

   (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent

   Synonymschink

   BroaderChinese

   disparagement · ethnic slur · slang

2. 2.

   a ball bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to leg

   Broaderbowling

Other forms of chinaman

plural

chinamans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chinaman

What does chinaman mean?

chinaman means "(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chinaman?

chinaman has 3 syllables: chi-na-man. The stress falls on "chi".

What is another word for chinaman?

Close synonyms include chink. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chinaman a common word?

chinaman is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.