Chinese puzzle

noun

A kind of puzzle made of interlocking pieces that must be disassembled and reassembled.

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Meanings

nounChinese puzzle (plural Chinese puzzles)

plural Chinese puzzles

  1. A kind of puzzle made of interlocking pieces that must be disassembled and reassembled.

    The Consul carried another drink with Yvonne’s letters into an inner room, one of the boxes in the Chinese puzzle.

    1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 343
  2. figurativelyidiomaticA senseless situation.
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APA

Chinese puzzle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chinese%20puzzle

MLA

“Chinese puzzle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chinese%20puzzle. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Chinese puzzle,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chinese%20puzzle.

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