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Yanqui, a. and n.|ˈjæŋkɪ|
[a. Sp. Yanqui Yankee n. and a.]
= Yankee n. and a.: used esp. in Latin American contexts.
1929[see parrot-house]. 1937[see Panaman n. and a.]. 1952Caribbean Q. II. iv. 9 Latin America replied with denunciations of what is called ‘Yanqui Imperialism’. 1969Guardian 6 Oct. 11/2 The Mexicans..naturally were loath to prosecute their own kind..on evidence collected by the Yanquis. 1975New Yorker 30 June 23/3 Pelé, the King of Soccer, the Black Pearl, lured from Brazil by four million seventeen hundred thousand Yanqui dollars and his own sense of duty, was here to play his first game for Warner Communications' New York Cosmos. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 989/4 Roosevelt's seizure of Panama led him to publish his archetypal anti⁓Yanqui diatribe. 1982J. D. MacDonald Cinnamon Skin xxiv. 257 It was a childish game with them, to effortlessly outdistance the heaving sweating Yanquis. |