Definition of "coolie" [coo•lie]

• Offensive An unskilled Asian laborer. (noun)

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• "The Bihari coolie is be-headed by poor and unemployed Marathi youth for Maratha pride."
• "The last coolie is a partner with a microscopic share."
• "Whole populations there have never known freedom; to such people one master is no worse than another; the lot of the coolie is the same in either case."