Word.ws English Dictionary

Chinese fire drills

Chinese fire drills is the plural of Chinese fire drill.

Meaning of Chinese fire drill

Noun

Chinese fire drill (plural Chinese fire drills)

  1. (US) A prank performed while stopped in a car at a red light, and where each passenger, including the driver, shouts "Chinese fire drill", exits the vehicle, runs at least once around it, then re-enters, each taking a different seat.
  2. (US, derogatory) A silly, pointless exercise.

Questions about Chinese fire drills

What is Chinese fire drills the plural of?
Chinese fire drills is the plural of Chinese fire drill.

Words near Chinese fire drills in the dictionary

  1. Chinese finger puzzle
  2. Chinese finger puzzles
  3. Chinese finger trap
  4. Chinese finger traps
  5. Chinese fire drill
  6. Chinese fire drills
  7. Chinese firewall
  8. Chinese firewalls
  9. Chinese fleece vine
  10. Chinese fleecevine
  11. Chinese folk religion

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Chinese fire drills (page history and authors); Chinese fire drill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Chinese fire drills.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chinese_fire_drills. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.