yacht people

English

Etymology 1

yacht+people.

Noun

yacht people pl (plural only)

  1. The very rich, who are rich enough to belong to one of the yachting social circles
  2. (sports) The people of yacht racing
  3. The extremely rich, part of the billionaire yacht world tour social event calendar

Noun

yacht people

  1. plural of yacht person
  2. Alternative form of yachtspeople

Coordinate terms

Etymology 2

Modelled after boat people, from being rich persons who are fleeing from political circumstance, where yachts are associated with the rich, and the 1970s boat people having fled political oppression in Vietnam.

Noun

yacht people pl (plural only)

  1. (historical) Wealthy émigrés from Hong Kong, who fled the 1997 handover of the colony back to China, to the People's Republic of China, taking their wealth with them to settle elsewhere in the Anglosphere and establish close-knit expatriate communities
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