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A jocular explanation for bad luck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, dated, offensive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Referring to a putative, and otherwise unrecorded, Anglo-Australian superstition that killing a Chinese person brought about bad luck.
