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The act of, upon reaching a stop light/sign, all the members of a vehicle bail out and dash laps around the car until the light changes or the other people around you get really pissed.
Hey man, I'm bored, let's go do a few Chinese Fire Drills down at the town square.
erm... ok, but you're the one driving this time!
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A Chinese Fire Drill is when, at a red light, a group of people hop out their car, switch to different seats as fast as they can, and ride away.
Yo, I'm so bored. Wanna piss people off and go do chinese fire drills?!
See chinese, fire, drill, fun, bored
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In Detroit], the act of getting out of your car at a stop light and having it be stolen before you can reach the rear bumper.
Could I borrow a Benjamin] to get my car out of impound? I tried a chinese fire drill last week because I forgot I wasn't in Ann Arbor].
See fast, ghost ride, 1950's, mostly harmless
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1. (n) A state of confusion. It is thought that the term was derived when a Royal Navy Ship consisting of a Chinese crew and British officers was set to perform a firedrill. One group of the crew was to carry buckets of water from the portside of the ship to the engine room to extinguish the blaze. Then another team was to take buckets of water from the floor of the engine room and throw it off the starboardside. In the first moments of the drill, things went fine, however, difficulty in translation between the officers and crew caused confusion resulting in the first bucket team taking water from the port side of the ship, and dumping it off the starboard side of the ship while the second team did nothing.
2. (n) When the occupants of a car stop at a traffic light and exit the vehicleto cavort around the car like the lead knife in a knife parade
See also Chinese National Anthem and Chinese Puzzle
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Jack: So we set up all the bands to play with eachother.
Hanns: How'd it go?
Jack: It was a damn Chinese fire drill in there...
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Jack: Let's have a Chinese fire drill at the next light.
Hanns: Kay.
See chinese fire drill, fire, chinese, british, confusion, clusterfuck, asinine, pointless, hamburger
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Used as a euphemism in sports, when in a particular zone there is mass disorganization, confusion, or lack of cohesion.
Bill: Did you see the Senators power-play last night?
Ted: It was brutal! The whole thing looked like a Chinese fire drill
See fucked up, inept, shitty
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a racistterm that denotes that something is completely haywire. When one says that something is as "hosed up like a Chinese fire drill" it means that there is a massive confusion going on. The complexities and complications of the Chinese language is probably a factor in the use of this term. Still, it's a racist term to use because it implies that Chinese people don't have their shittogether. Besides, if you were to see a REAL fire drill in China it probably would be just as orderly as one held in the West, even with the Chinese language being as difficult as it is. Sometimes the term " Polish fire drill" is used to mean the same thing.
Billy is 16 and taking driver's ed. He pumped the accelerator too forcefully. He killed the engine and needs to wait a minute or two, then start it up again. Sitting next to him is the driving instructor Gerald. Gerald tells Billy that he's got it all fucked up like a Chinese fire drill.
See a mess, botched, afu, fucked up, screwy, messed up
