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Mandarin · pinyin bīng lang Xī shī

(Tw) betel nut beauty: a skimpily-dressed, attractive girl who sells betel nut from a glass-walled roadside booth

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榔: láng · betel-nut tree
西: xī · west(ern); westward; occident; Kangxi radical 146
施: shī · grant, bestow; give; act; name
槟: bīn · betel-nut, areca nut

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1–5–1–1 · bing1 lang5 Xi1 shi1

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noun

“betel nut beauty” (previously common phenomenon of employing young, scantily clad women to sell betel nuts and cigarettes along the roadsides in Taiwan)

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