Flu Manchu
nounEtymology
Pun on flu and Fu Manchu.
Definitions
An epidemic of influenza or other illness associated with China or Asia.
- Hysteria is mounting about this Asiatic flu from far-off places. If that's the way it is to be, let’s go all the way and call it Flu Manchu.
- Away back in 1936, the year that Life began, the nation’s bloodstream flowed free of penicillin, and neither the virus, the Flu Manchu nor the tranquilizing pill were known to the average American.
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