boat people
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Noun
[edit]boat people pl (normally plural, singular boat person)
- (historical) Refugees fleeing by sea, particularly those fleeing from South Vietnam during the 1970s and '80s.
- 2010, Walter Mondale, David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics[1], Scribner, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 184e:
- Indochinese refugees, known throughout the world as the “boat people,” were subject to horrific suffering and dangers when the Vietnamese government began expelling them after the fall of Saigon.
- An ethnic group that principally lives on fishing and houseboats, particularly the Tanka or Dan people of East Asia.
- plural of boat person
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[edit]refugees fleeing by sea
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ethnic group that principally lives on fishing and houseboats
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