taipan
noun/ˈtaɪpæn/
/ˈtaɪpæn/
(from Chinese)- a foreign person who is in charge of a business in China
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- an extremely poisonous Australian snakeTopics Animalsc2
Word Originsense 1 mid 19th cent.: from Chinese (Cantonese dialect) daaihbāan.sense 2 1930s: from Wik Munkan (an extinct Aboriginal language of North Queensland) dhayban.
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