boat people
refugees who have fled a country by boat, usually without sufficient provisions, navigational aids, or a set destination, especially those who left Indochina by sea as a result of the fall of South Vietnam in 1975.
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The communist reeducation camps, the flight of the boat people, and the Cambodian killing fields followed.
The Jewish Daily Forward Defined the Word Obama’s Now Using as a Slogan | Seth Lipsky | May 9, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTI wanted air and quiet, but the desire of my boat people was set on a chance to go a-marketing or to do a little visiting.
A Wayfarer in China | Elizabeth KendallThese Chinese boat people are perhaps unequalled by any others in the world.
The 'Fan Kwae' at Canton Before Treaty Days 1825-1844 | William C. HunterThe party were in a frolicsome mood; and they went off singing a song, to the great astonishment of the native boat-people.
Four Young Explorers | Oliver OpticAt sundown the boat-people anchor their craft in rows to stakes, thus forming boat-terraces as it were.
Man on the Ocean | R.M. Ballantyne
He checked the evidence of the boat people as it had appeared in the papers by what they said now.
'19,000' | Burford Delannoy
British Dictionary definitions for boat people
refugees, esp from Vietnam in the late 1970s, who leave by boat hoping to be picked up by ships of another country
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