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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 


YELLOW MAN (noun)


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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