(US, historical) A Chinese male who was falsely registered as the son of another Chinese who had already migrated to America, in order to take advantage of immigration laws.
(US, historical) A Chinese male who was falsely registered as the son of another Chinese who had already migrated to America, in order to take advantage of immigration laws.
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Official documents or identification, as a passport.
(Singapore, derogatory) A person who, upon completion of a government scholarship to study in a university, is promoted to a high rank in the military despite the lack of combat experience.
(US, historical) A (possibly apocryphal) social event to which only those whose skin color passed the "brown bag test" were admitted.
(cartography) A nonexistent town included on a map in order to identify cases of plagiarism by others.
(US, historical) A loophole in early-1900s American immigration law that allowed Chinese people to enter the country if they managed a Chinese restaurant, resulting in a greater-than-average increase of those establishments over several decades.