"chinkware" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: From Chink (“contemptuous term for a Chinese person”) + -ware. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|Chink|-ware|id2=software|t1=contemptuous term for a Chinese person}} Chink (“contemptuous term for a Chinese person”) + -ware Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} chinkware (uncountable)
  1. (Internet slang, computing, derogatory, ethnic slur) Software created in China, regarded as being likely to maliciously surveil the user; Chinese spyware. Tags: Internet, derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-chinkware-en-noun-p5gpemM- Categories (other): English ethnic slurs, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ware (software), Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ware (software): 58 42 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 45 55 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. (Internet slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Products, especially electronics, manufactured or designed in China, regarded as being of poor-quality and prone to failure. Tags: Internet, derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable
    Sense id: en-chinkware-en-noun-cLPzyeXD Categories (other): English ethnic slurs, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 45 55
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Chinesium, pajeetware, shanzhai, zhing-zhong
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          "text": "That will mean lots more chinkware for you to hype.",
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          "ref": "2011 May 30, Pooh the Cat, “Privatefirewall Questions”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet):",
          "text": "The Windows firewall built into Vista, and Windows 7 is class. Why would I want to use Chinkware with Geekbuddy support , or indeed insert any third party code into the very fine network stack developed by Microsoft, with a little help from BSD.",
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          "text": "You always defend chinkware, which Bear Bottoms did at the behest of the PLA. Chinkware, when made in the PRC, not Taiwan, is always spyware, unconditionally, no variations on that. The PRC is the major industrial spy in the world. […]",
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          "text": "The xposed module itself is closed source and the link on the github page is very suspicious. I'm not running any unknown chinkware on something higher than user level.",
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          "text": "[…] if you're a company that could in any case ever compete with a chinese company, or a government infrastructure builder, stay away […] chinkware will be weaponized in the upcoming war",
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          "ref": "2009 December 12, Epsilon Eridani, “Newsgroup math”, in sci.astro.amateur (Usenet):",
          "text": "Because you are a moron who shops Chinkware at Walmart, happily.",
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          "ref": "2015 February 1, toriless, “Archived copy”, in Fixya, archived from the original on 2024-04-17:",
          "text": "[…] In the old days you could still get a Mexican made Zenith but now it's all from Asia and Japanese and Taiwanese products are a dozen times better then^([sic]) chinkware garbage.",
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          "text": "Their business model consists of buying cheap chinkware, installing Ubuntu (but lets install a different GTK theme so we can call it our own distro), and reselling them to clueless mutts at 250% the origina^([sic]) price. They are pretty based if you ask me.",
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          "ref": "2021 April 26, anonymous author, 4chan:",
          "text": ">mfw my chinkware phablet starts overheating",
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