Definition of taipan
: a powerful businessman and especially formerly a foreigner living and operating in Hong Kong or China
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Origin and Etymology of taipan
Chinese (Guangdong) daaih-bāan, from daaih big + bāan class
Definition of taipan
: an exceedingly venomous elapid snake (Oxyuranus scutellatus) of northern Australia and New Guinea; also : a related snake (O. microlepidotus)
Origin and Etymology of taipan
Wik Munkan (Australian aboriginal language of northern Queensland) dhayban
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