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yellow man

yellow man noun: an Asian man or a man with Asian heritage.

Noun

yellow man (plural yellow men)

  1. (now considered an ethnic slur and offensive) An Asian man or a man with Asian heritage
    • Won Chou merely relapsed into an attitude of studious melancholy, extremely trying to Mr. Fank's conception of the yellow man's status.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
  2. (now considered an ethnic slur and offensive) Asian people collectively; Asian culture.
    • Got in a little hometown jam / So they put a rifle in my hand / Sent me off to a foreign land / To go and kill the yellow man.1984, Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A.”

Forms of yellow man

pluralyellow men
alternative formyellowman

Questions about yellow man

What does yellow man mean?
Yellow man means an Asian man or a man with Asian heritage.
What part of speech is yellow man?
Yellow man is a noun.
What is the plural of yellow man?
The plural of yellow man is yellow men.

Words near yellow man in the dictionary

  1. yellow line
  2. yellow lines
  3. yellow locust
  4. yellow locusts
  5. yellow mai
  6. yellow man
  7. yellow meadow ant
  8. yellow meadow ants
  9. yellow media
  10. Yellow Medicine County
  11. yellow men

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