chinaman

1. (cricket, dated) A left-arm unorthodox bowling action (left-arm wrist-spin).Examples: "Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling."dated

2. (cricket) A spin bowler who uses such an action.

3. (cricket) A ball delivered with such an action.

1. (dated, now offensive) A Chinese person, or person of Chinese descent.Examples: "A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do.[…]Any white man can swear a Chinaman’s life away in the courts, but no Chinaman can testify against a white man."; "Another favorite pastime of the Highbinder who is usually a loafer, is to levy blackmail on a wealthy Chinaman.[…]If it were not that the Chinamen kill only men of their own race and let alone all other men, the citizens of San Francisco would have sacked and burned Chinatown."; "On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work."Synonyms: Chinapersondatedoffensive

2. (US, slang, obsolete, offensive) Addiction from a narcotic, especially heroin.Examples: "Chinaman half in and half out of the door. Codeine and goof balls, and complete discouragement."USobsoleteoffensiveslang