Usually means: Historically derogatory term for laborer.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. coolie: Merriam-Webster
  2. coolie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coolie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coolie: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coolie: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coolie, coolie: Wordnik
  7. coolie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. coolie: Wiktionary
  9. coolie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coolie (cooly): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coolie: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Coolie, coolie: Dictionary.com
  13. coolie: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Coolie (Malayalam film), Coolie (book), Coolie (disambiguation), Coolie (novel), Coolie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Coolie: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. coolie: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. coolie: Rhymezone
  18. Coolie: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. coolie: FreeDictionary.org
  20. coolie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. coolie: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. coolie: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coolie: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Coolie (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. coolie, coolie, coolie, coolie, coolie, coolie: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Coolie: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

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▸ 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.

Similar:
cooly, cooli, koelie, quli, coaster, cookee, coconut, toty, light porter, ah neh, more...

Opposite:
master, employer, boss, overseer

Phrases:
coolie hat, more...

Adjectives:
chinese, indian, ricksha, poor, old, common, ordinary, japanese, lowest, single, young


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Similar:
cooly, cooli, koelie, quli, coaster, cookee, coconut, toty, light porter, ah neh, more...

Opposite:
master, employer, boss, overseer

Phrases:
coolie hat, more...

Adjectives:
chinese, indian, ricksha, poor, old, common, ordinary, japanese, lowest, single, young



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