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- noun Plural form of
coolie .
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Examples
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He was in further trouble last month for referring to Indians by the highly offensive term "coolies."
Exit Julius R.W. Johnson 2011
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Schemmer had decided that the event would be a good object-lesson, and so had called in the coolies from the fields and compelled them to be present.
THE CHINAGO 2010
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Those "indentured servants", who were nearly all brought from India and became known as coolies, were akin to slaves in that they often became indebted to their employers and saw their contracts extended to pay back their debt.
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Whether called coolies, koozies, cozies, huggies, huggers or can coolers, a neoprene sweater will keep your drink chilled on the hottest of days (or warm on the coolest of days).
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Schemmer had decided that the event would be a good object-lesson, and so had called in the coolies from the fields and compelled them to be present.
The Chinago 1911
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Level places for buildings are obtained by blasting, and every brick, stone, and bit of household furniture is carried by coolies from the town up to the height of 1,600 feet.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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A disagreeable thing about the coolies is that they grunt like pigs when carrying one.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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This was the custom in her home in China when calling coolies but considered very bad form in the White House.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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Among the coolies will be a strawman sot with a Schmidthole in his desk drawer.
City Council Stands Up To ACLU on Behalf of LAPD and The City 2006
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These they were called coolies, a pejorative term which unfortunately persists to this day, and subjected to all manner of indignities and degradation, since the white settlers a viewed them as sub-human, in the same way that they saw and treated the African people.
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