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Chink stuff
Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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in placer-mining areas, ore deposits of low concentration, so called because Chinese often worked such deposits.
Quotations
1936
The place is not staked or posted. Gary fancied that the deposit must be "chink stuff," of low concentration.