Meanings
nounChina bug (plural China bugs)
plural China bugs
- USethnichistoricalslurA fresh off the boat Chinese-American immigrant.
The ABCs called us FOBs—Fresh Off the Boat—or China Bugs. Even the American-born Chinese referred to us as ‘Chinese’—as though they were not.
1977, Joe Fong, quotee, Unemployment and Crime: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First and Second Sessions on Unemployment and Crime, page 820
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