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Hong Kong|hɒŋ kɒŋ|
[Name of a British crown colony in the South China Sea.]
1. Croquet. (See quot. 1863.)
1863Mayne Reid Croquet 10 A ball croque'd beyond the boundaries is sent to ‘Hong Kong’, or ‘up the country’. 1897Encycl. Sport I. 253/2 Hong Kong, Off to ―. The old term for the driving of an opponent's ball from the croquet to the extreme corner of the ground. 1957V. Nabokov Pnin v. 131 Madam Shpolyanski insisted it was perfectly acceptable and said that when she was a child her English governess used to call it a Hong Kong.
b. Colloq. phr. to go to Hong Kong, to go away, to go ‘to hell’.
1880R. Jefferies Hodge & M. I. ii. 40 The excitement of the day was a pleasurable sensation, and as for his master he might go to Kansas or Hong-Kong. 1921A. Brazil Fortunate Term xii. 160 Opal Earnshaw may go to Hong-Kong if she likes. I don't care about her and her meannesses.
2. Used attrib., spec. to designate a strain of the influenza virus discovered in Hong Kong in 1968, and influenza caused by it.
1911Encycl. Brit. XIII. 659/1 The only legal tender is the Mexican dollar, and the British and Hong-Kong dollar, or other silver dollars of equivalent value duly authorized by the governor. 1968Weekly Epidemiological Rec. 16 Aug. 411 (table) Influenza... A2/Hong Kong/1/68. Ibid. 23 Aug. 421/2 Preliminary tests of paired sera..have shown very poor results against the new Hong Kong variant. Ibid. 30 Aug. 448/2 The Hong Kong strains should be classified as viruses A2. 1968Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 16 Sept. 23/1 (heading) Experts attend Hong Kong flu talk in Atlanta. 1968Times 23 Dec. 6/2 He was not feeling his best and had what scientists felt could be the symptoms of Hongkong influenza. 1970New Scientist 8 Jan. 45/2 It made sad listening for those abed with Hongkong 'flu. 1973J. Goodfield Courier to Peking viii. 101 When she finally got to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, she..withdrew fifty Hong Kong dollars. |