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What is a coolie?

What is a coolie? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (offensive) An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a labourer; a porter. Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers.
  2. (offensive) A person of Indian descent.
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Her husband is employed as a coolie in the soap factory and helps her with the supplies she needs.
It was a simple war of the castes, Coolie versus Samurai, and the coolie socialists were executed by tens of thousands.
As he had evolved from a coolie labourer to a multi-millionaire, so had his name evolved.
Nothing can beat the Sircar mule when he is in good condition, unless it is the balti and Ladaki coolie.
He learned what it was to be spoken to like a coolie and ordered about like a cook.
Another room is devoted to perfume, and shows scent bottles shaped like pagodas and tasselled coolie hats.

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