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‘If it has taught us one central lesson, it may well be that the world known as Chinese America is populated with all of us - women, men, FOBs, and ABCs - and together we can better achieve our vision for tomorrow.’
‘Though some ABCs want to be recognized as "real Chinese," I don't.’
‘I'm a little surprised when an ABC has bad grammar.’
adjective
US informal
Relating to or denoting American-born people of Chinese descent.
‘some ABC parents send their children to Chinese language schools’
‘I have an ABC friend who speaks much worse Chinese than me, but nobody pushes her to switch to English when they talk with her.’
‘David said he was ABC, American Born Chinese.’
Origin
1970s: from the initial letters of American-born Chinese.