What does "coolie" mean?
Coolie: Same as Cooly.
Additional senses
- 2.An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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