(UK, Ireland, offensive, _, slang, derogatory) A corner shop run by a Pakistani or any other person of South-West Asian and South-Asian descent.
(UK, Ireland, offensive, _, slang, derogatory) A corner shop run by a Pakistani or any other person of South-West Asian and South-Asian descent. Hence also any corner shop.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(British, Canada, pejorative, racial slur) Pakistani, or perceived to be Pakistani.
(UK, Canada, by extension) Anyone whose origins are perceived to be from South Asia or the Indian subcontinent.
(UK, Canada, India) A Pakistani.
(British, pejorative) In skinhead culture, the act of physical or verbal attacks by non-Asians against Pakistanis or other people originating from North Africa, the Middle East or the Indian subcontinent, and predominantly of a Muslim background.
In Australian and Indian cricket culture, 'the Pakis' is an informal, colloquial shorthand for the Pakistan cricket team — used among cricket fans in the way 'the Windies' refers to the West Indies team. The term carries different weight in different contexts: within South Asian cricket fandom it may be unremarkable, while in British usage it has historically functioned as a racial slur requiring care.