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YELLOW MAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow man mean?
• YELLOW MAN (noun)
The noun YELLOW MAN has 1 sense:
1. offensive term for an Oriental man
Familiarity information: YELLOW MAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Offensive term for an Oriental man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("yellow man" is a kind of...):
Oriental; oriental person (a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans))
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
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