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rice eaters

rice eaters is the plural of rice eater.

Meaning of rice eater

Noun

rice eater (plural rice eaters)

  1. One who eats rice as a dietary staple.
    • The beef eater needs a knife and a fork, while the rice eater does not.1928, Frederick Elmore Lumley, Principles of Sociology, page 36
  2. Asian.
    • "They called me a gook and a rice eater." Yet right beneath or simultaneous with the racial harassment, the slut story took shape.2002, Emily White, Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut, →ISBN, page 178

Questions about rice eaters

What is rice eaters the plural of?
Rice eaters is the plural of rice eater.

Words near rice eaters in the dictionary

  1. rice cutgrass
  2. rice cutgrasses
  3. Rice distribution
  4. Rice distributions
  5. rice eater
  6. rice eaters
  7. rice field
  8. rice fields
  9. rice flake
  10. rice flakes
  11. rice flour

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