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chink-land

chink-land is the alternative form of Chinkland.

Meaning of Chinkland

Proper noun

Chinkland

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur) China.
    • 'So-so?' he mimicked. So-so? Where does that fuckin' come from, Danny? Chinkland?'2014, JR Carroll, Cheaters, →ISBN
  2. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur) Loosely, East Asia or (chiefly US) Asia in general.
    • I used to tell the kids who slanted their eyes and told me to go back to Chinkland that I was a direct descendant of Robert E. Lee, giving me more right to live in this country than they had.2004, Caroline Hwang, In Full Bloom, →ISBN, page 47

Proper noun capitalized: Chink-land

Chink-land

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Chinkland.
    • "I tell you I don't have. Were they in Chink-land?" "Yeah." "Maybe they got captured."1955, Anthony B. Herbert, Robert L. Niemann, Conquest to Nowhere, page 240
    • It's Chinatown now, and you go with them in the roundup of celestial Chink-land until presently they stop—it's an inspiration.2014, Michael Lasser, America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years, →ISBN

Questions about chink-land

What is chink-land the alternative form of?
Chink-land is the alternative form of Chinkland.
What part of speech is chink-land?
Chink-land is a proper noun.

Words near chink-land in the dictionary

  1. chink in the armor
  2. chink in the armour
  3. chink land
  4. chink up
  5. chink-a-chink
  6. chink-land
  7. Chinka
  8. chinkapin
  9. chinkapin oak
  10. chinkapin oaks
  11. chinkapins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chink-land (page history and authors); Chink-land (page history and authors); Chinkland (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.

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