Usually means: Historically, low-paid laborers from Asia.
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  1. coolies: Merriam-Webster
  2. coolies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coolies: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. coolies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. coolies: Wiktionary
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  9. Coolies, The Coolies: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Coolies: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Coolies: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. coolies: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. coolies: Encyclopedia

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  1. coolies: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (coolie)

noun:  An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a labourer; a porter. Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers.
noun:  (Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica, Fiji, South Africa and other parts of Africa, ethnic slur) An Indian or a person of Indian descent.
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