Meaning

1 senses
  1. (historical, in the plural)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.

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: yacht people
Singularyacht person
Pluralyacht people

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See also

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