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noun
A wealthy émigré from Hong Kong who fled the handover of the colony back to China in 1997, taking their wealth with them to settle elsewhere in the Anglosphere and establish close-knit expatriate communities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, in-plural
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noun
Alternative form of yachtsperson.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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History
(émigré from Hong Kong): Modelled on boat people.
