coolie🔊

An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a laborer; a porter.

💬 Quotations

One day when the Man's Wife and the Tertium Quid had just arrived in the Cemetery, they saw some coolies breaking ground.

Rudyard Kipling, Under the Deodars

(Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica, Fiji, South Africa and other parts of Africa, ethnic slur) An Indian or a person of Indian descent.