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sticky rice

sticky rice noun: a variety of short-grain rice popular in South and East Asia, known for its stickiness when cooked.

Noun

sticky rice (usually uncountable, plural sticky rices)

  1. (usually) A variety of short-grain rice popular in South and East Asia, known for its stickiness when cooked.
    Synonyms:
    glutinous rice
  2. (derogatory, slang, usually) An (East) Asian man who is mostly attracted to other Asian men.
    • I think they are changing now, too, though, because you see groups and groups of them in bars, all Asian, together. It’s amazing. So my market is much more expanded. I’m “sticky rice” [Asians who like Asians].1990 January 27, Jack Lo, Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Jacquelyn Ching Black, “Asian cultures, sexuality and class: sorting it all out”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 27, page 11
    • During my "sticky rice" phase, I explored what it meant to be queer and Asian in contemporary America. We had terms for everyone: if you were rice (gay and Asian) and you liked white men, then you were a snow queen or a potato queen. White men who liked you were called rice queens. Every ethnicity...1996, Elaine H. Kim, Eui-Young Yu]], chapter 8, in East to America: Korean American life stories, The New York Press, page 87

Examples of sticky rice in a sentence

  • During my "sticky rice" phase, I explored what it meant to be queer and Asian in contemporary America.1996, Elaine H. Kim, Eui-Young Yu]], chapter 8, in East to America: Korean American life stories, The New York Press, page 87:
  • Depending on the context, sticky rice can easily be resignified from a term of empowerment into a term of insult.2014, Nguyen Tan Hoang, chapter 4, in A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation, Duke University Press...

Synonyms of sticky rice

Forms of sticky rice

pluralsticky rices

Questions about sticky rice

What does sticky rice mean?
Sticky rice means a variety of short-grain rice popular in South and East Asia, known for its stickiness when cooked.
How do you use sticky rice in a sentence?
During my "sticky rice" phase, I explored what it meant to be queer and Asian in contemporary America.
What part of speech is sticky rice?
Sticky rice is a noun.
What is the plural of sticky rice?
The plural of sticky rice is sticky rices.

Words near sticky rice in the dictionary

  1. sticky keys
  2. sticky monkey-flower
  3. sticky note
  4. sticky notes
  5. sticky platelet syndrome
  6. sticky rice
  7. sticky rice wine
  8. sticky rice wines
  9. sticky rices
  10. sticky shed syndrome
  11. sticky situation

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