Usually means: Offensive term for Chinese person.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word chinaman:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chinaman: Merriam-Webster
  2. Chinaman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Chinaman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Chinaman: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Chinaman: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chinaman: Wordnik
  7. Chinaman, chinaman: Wiktionary
  8. Chinaman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Chinaman: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Chinaman, chinaman: Dictionary.com
  11. Chinaman (disambiguation), Chinaman (politics), Chinaman (porcelain), Chinaman (term), Chinaman, The Chinaman (Stephen Leather novel), The Chinaman (album), The Chinaman (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Chinaman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. chinaman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Chinaman: Rhymezone
  15. Chinaman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Chinaman: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  17. chinaman: FreeDictionary.org
  18. chinaman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Chinaman: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Chinaman: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chinaman (racial term), Chinaman (slang), Chinaman: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chinaman (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. Chinaman: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. The Chinaman, chinaman: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See chinamans as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Chinaman)

noun:  (obsolete) A dealer in porcelain (china). [18th–19th c.]
noun:  (cricket, dated) A left-arm unorthodox bowling action (left-arm wrist-spin).
noun:  (cricket) A spin bowler who uses such an action.
noun:  (cricket) A ball delivered with such an action.
noun:  (dated, now offensive) A Chinese person, or person of Chinese descent.
noun:  A sailing ship of the 18th and 19th centuries engaged in the Old China Trade
noun:  (US, slang, obsolete, offensive) Addiction from a narcotic, especially heroin.

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