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noun Slang: Usually Offensive.

a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.

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Origin of Chinese tour

First recorded in 1975–80

usage note for Chinese tour

See Chinese.

Words nearby Chinese tour

Chinese sacred lily, Chinese Shar-Pei, Chinese snowball, Chinese tag, Chinese tallow tree, Chinese tour, Chinese trumpet creeper, Chinese Turkestan, Chinese vermilion, Chinese Wall, Chinese water deer

How to use Chinese tour in a sentence

The family was taking some private moments for a closing of the coffin in keeping with Chinese ritual.
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Stanley Richards, Senior Vice President of the Fortune Society, gave a tour along with a few residents.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside|Justin Rohrlich|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Before I go out on tour, I ask for prayer and to help my family.
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They finished out the tour without incident, while newspapers across the country picked up the story.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’|Peter Guralnick|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

TLC promptly pulled the plug on the hit series and Shannon embarked on a press tour denying the claims.
Butts, Brawls, and Bill Cosby: The Biggest Celebrity Scandals of 2014 |Kevin Fallon|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Undesirable inhabitants of the country are being sent away, especially the Japanese, who are more dangerous than the Chinese.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
Rich natives and Chinese lost large sums of money, the total of which cannot be ascertained.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
The magazines sketch us a lively article, the newspapers vignette us, step by step, a royal tour.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
But the traveller took a wide tour; and did not bring the letter to its destination until two months after its date.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
Besides, we now know that the plant which furnishes the Chinese tobacco is even said to grow wild in the East Indies.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.