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To: struggle
左翼チンピラ

I had to guess about the "left" part; I assumed it was political, but I looked it up anyway.

Chinpira is a yakuza term, I don't know how much it has filtered into regular conversation; "tea talk" is about as far removed from everyday colloquial speech as one can get, and I am always being chided for my being too formal :-)

51 posted on 07/07/2015 11:09:49 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

It means leftist thugs.

Chinpira are the dirtballs that do all the crime for yakuza, but aren’t good enough to join the family.


53 posted on 07/07/2015 11:21:32 AM PDT by struggle
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