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› 收保護費
收保護費
sau1
bou2
wu6
fai3
Simplified: 收保护费
Cantonese
Slang
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To collect protection money; extortion from businesses. A fixture of HK's Kowloon triad districts in the 80s-90s. Mostly gone now but the phrase lives on as a metaphor for any parasitic arrangement.
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wu6
T6
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fai3
T3
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收保護費
sau1
bou2
wu6
fai3
to take protection fees
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