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Chinese puzzles

Chinese puzzles is the plural of Chinese puzzle.

Meaning of Chinese puzzle

Noun

Chinese puzzle (plural Chinese puzzles)

  1. A kind of puzzle made of interlocking pieces that must be disassembled and reassembled.
    • The Consul carried another drink with Yvonne’s letters into an inner room, one of the boxes in the Chinese puzzle.1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 343
  2. (figuratively, idiomatic) A senseless situation.

Questions about Chinese puzzles

What is Chinese puzzles the plural of?
Chinese puzzles is the plural of Chinese puzzle.

Words near Chinese puzzles in the dictionary

  1. Chinese primrose
  2. Chinese pug
  3. Chinese pugs
  4. Chinese purple
  5. Chinese puzzle
  6. Chinese puzzles
  7. Chinese quince
  8. Chinese quinces
  9. Chinese radish
  10. Chinese radishes
  11. Chinese ragwort

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