boat people
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.70 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Refugees fleeing by sea, particularly those fleeing from South Vietnam during the 1970s and '80s.
noun
An ethnic group that principally lives on fishing and houseboats, particularly the Tanka or Dan people of East Asia.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Indochinese refugees, known throughout the world as the “boat people,” were subject to horrific suffering and dangers when the Vietnamese government began expelling them after the fall of Saigon."