(UK, Australia, New Zealand) The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.
Burns Philp was to incur public odium in the most notorious case in Queensland concerning blackbirding.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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