Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) a Chinese-owned shop.

1907

C. M’Govern By Bolo and Krag 204: Down I goes to the Chinks in Calle Rosario and lays in as much fiery red and yeller cloth as I could bundle on a couple of native ponies.

2. (orig. US) a Chinese restaurant.

1935		B. Traven Treasure of the Sierra Madre 54: I’m going to eat at a Chinks’s, too.
1947		I. Shulman Amboy Dukes 10: He and Alice had to eat at the Chink’s.
1991		W.T. Vollmann Whores for Gloria 137: The Chinks! said Code Six, the chop suey house.

3. (orig. US) a Chinese meal, Chinese food.

1937		D. Fuchs Low Company 217: He was already out a dollar fifty-five cents for the Chink’s including the tip.
1949		I. Shulman Cry Tough! 220: ‘We were talking about what you’d like for dinner.’ ‘Think we could have some Chinks?’.
1955		E. Hunter ‘First Offense’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 17: I wanted to eat Chink’s.
1960		G. Bluestone Private World of Cully Powers 6: Last night I was eatin’ Chinks with my girl [HDAS].
1971		I. Faust Willy Remembers 107: We went out for chinks’ on Mott Street.
1976		R. Price Blood Brothers 63: ‘You want some Chinks?’ They walked uptown on Broadway until they hit the Hunan Star.
1978		H. Selby Jr Requiem for a Dream (1987) 129: Every Sunday night they go out to eat chinks.
2002		A Gathering of the Tribes 🌐 Outsiders see little of the actual life behind the stoops. Tourists notice slanted eyes, a phone booth in the shape of a pagoda, an arhat in a shop window that looks like a 90-year-old man. Visitors come to ‘eat chinks.’.