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Chinese helicopter
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English
Noun
en Singapore derogatory A Singaporean who was educated in a Chinese-medium school and is not well versed in English.
en 1985 M. Chiang Army Daze 43 The story goes that a recruit, when asked what school he came from, answered ‘Chinese helucated’, which went down in the army annals as Chinese helicopter.
Coordinate terms
banana, inverse term referring to Chinese who speak English but cannot understand their native language
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