A surname from Chinese.

(Singapore, Malaysia, informal) Oh no!

Alternative spelling of laoya.

A tenement building, found in Southern China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

(Singapore, colloquial) A ten-storey housing flat built by the Singapore Housing and Development Board (HDB) in the 1960s (now mostly vacated).

plural of chap lau chu

(Australia, colloquial, slang, humorous) An act of vomiting; vomit.

An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. / Something that provokes mirth or scorn. / (Britain, New Zealand) A fun person.

(intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

A laundering; a washing. / A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing. / That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.