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北bak1漏lau6洞dung6拉laai1

bak1 lau6 dung6 laai1běi lòu dòng lā

English

  1. a slang derived from a Vietnamese phrase, meaning "starting from now"
  2. Cantonese corruption of the Vietnamese phrase "bắt đầu từ nay", or in English "from now on", which were the first few words of a Hong Kong radio public service announcement in Vietnamese in the late 80s during the boat people crisis, warning Vietnamese boat people of a screening policy against economic immigrants. As the message was often repeated on public radio, it became a derogatory slur of Vietnamese people in Hong Kong.

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 對越南船民嘅謔稱。

Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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