English Explanatory Dictionary

yacht person

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A wealthy émigré from Hong Kong who fled the handover of the colony back to China in 1997, taking their wealth with them to settle elsewhere in the Anglosphere and establish close-knit expatriate communities.
  2. Alternative form of yachtsperson.

Word forms

yacht person yacht people

Etymology

(émigré from Hong Kong): Modelled on boat people.

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