In Australian and Indian cricket culture, 'the Pakis' is an informal, colloquial shorthand for the Pakistan cricket team — used among cricket fans in the way 'the Windies' refers to the West Indies team. The term carries different weight in different contexts: within South Asian cricket fandom it may be unremarkable, while in British usage it has historically functioned as a racial slur requiring care.
The Pakis won the series convincingly and silenced every doubter.
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(Australia, India) The Pakistan cricket team.
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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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