What is the meaning of CHINE. Phrases containing CHINE
See meanings and uses of CHINE!Slangs & AI meanings
1. An angle in the hull. 2. A line formed where the sides of a boat meet the bottom. Soft chine is when the two sides join at a shallow angle, and hard chine is when they join at a steep angle.
Chinese rocks is slang for various varieties of far−eastern crystalline heroin.
n Used as a disparaging term for person of Chinese birth or descent. [Probably alteration of Chinese.]
Temple or house of worship for a Chinese religion
Get Chinese is American slang for to get very intoxicated on drugs.
, as in “I got a Chink ribbed up to get the dope†Set up, arranged for? “I have arranged for a Chinese person to get the information� (Knockover, 203)
, as in “You’re not trying to find a Chinese angle on it, are you?†A strange or unusual twist or aspect to something
heroin
Corrupt politician or functionary Professional killer operating in the Chinese quarter of a city
Telling someone to go all the way to the back of the queue. c.f. backage, frontage chinese backage.
opium
Chinese is British slang for something difficult to understand.
opium
This schoolyard 'joke' comes with 'actions': My mummy's Chinese... (fore fingers used to draw corners of eyes upwards into 'chinky eyes) My daddy's Japanese... (the same but this time drawn downwards) And look how i ended up? (one eye drawn upwards and the other drawn downwards) Goes back to the Contributors Junior if not infant school in London. Incidentally. He is now a primary school teacher in China (he can prove this but would need a scanner and can't really be arsed) and he's found that Chinese kids make fun of the Japanese for having slanty eyes.
heroin
Mind. You're out of you little chinese mate.
CHINE
CHINE
CHINE
CHINE
CHINE
CHINE
CHINE
n.
Chinese abacus.
n.
A Chinese weight of 2/ pounds.
n.
A small translucent fish (Salanx Chinensis) abundant at certain seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same manner as the European whitebait.
n.
A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
a.
Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition.
n.
The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan.
n.
A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters.
n.
A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.
n.
A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.
n.
The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks.
v. t.
Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
n.
A violent whirlwind; specifically, a violent whirlwind occurring in the Chinese seas.
imp. & p. p.
of Chine
v. t.
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
n.
The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.
n.
The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree (Thea, / Camellia, Chinensis). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into some other countries.
n.
A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
n.
A spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure.
CHINE
CHINE
CHINE