Wah Ching (華青, Hanyu Pinyin: HuΓ‘qīng, Cantonese: Wah-ching) also known by slang as "Dub C" is a Chinese street gang that originated in San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1960s. The name literally translates to "Chinese youth," and the group was comprised primarily of immigrant Cantonese boys from Hong Kong who banded together to combat the American-born Chinese who would often pick on them.
The Wah Ching have been described as an organized crime group. From its origin in 1966 as a street gang, the Wah Ching has developed into a criminal organization, with alleged multi-international crime connections. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Wah Ching became an organization that controlled most of the criminal vices in San Francisco's Chinatown and Los Angeles' Chinese communities. During that time, there may have been as many as 200 Wah Ching members and 500 criminal associates in California. Although primarily headquartered in San Francisco, they have developed strong associations with Asian organized crime groups and gang members in Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, Boston, and New York--along with close ties to the Sun Yee On and the 14K Triad in Hong Kong. Today in Los Angeles, The Bay Area California, Vancouver, and the rest of the West Coast of North America there is an estimated 3,000 gang members of Wah Ching and an estimated 1,000 more affiliated with the Wah Ching Gang. The Wah Ching are affiliated with the red rag, and associate themselves as bloods.
Wah Ching first received widespread media attention because of the 1977 Golden Dragon massacre involving another Chinese gang, the Chung Ching Yee (Joe Boys). The event took place at the Golden Dragon Restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown. The cause of the attack was vandalism by Wah Ching to the graves of several Joe Boy members and a shootout that took place a few months earlier that left one Joe Boy dead and two others wounded.
Wah Ching is located in some of the Southern California area in cities such as Rowland Heights, Diamond Bar, Torrance, Hacienda Heights and San Gabriel Valley (the 626 area code). Their main enemies are the Asian Boyz (ABZ) and Vietnamese Boyz (VBZ). Both Wah Ching and Asian Boyz were featured on the television program, America's Most Wanted, following a vicious shooting at a pool hall. The Wah Ching also influence New York, in Chinatown, Sunset Park, and Flushing.
Wah Ching is a highly ethnic Chinese youth culture, and is composed mainly of young men. The gang's usual attire are regular business attire, making it hard for officials to distinguish them from other citizens. Most Wah Ching gangs have no ties to the original, and are merely street gangs engaging in constant turf wars.
In recent years, some Wah Ching members as young as 16 have been dabbling into murder. In 2001, a 17 year old Wah Ching member, who actually was an Advanced Placement student at Diamond Bar High School, shot and killed two members of the rival San Gabriel Killas (SGK) while attending a football game. More recently (December 2005) a 20yr-old Wah Ching member ran down a Chicano man with unknown gang affiliation in front of his house, and repeatedly backed over the man beyond the point of death, while holding down the car's horn to ensure that neighbors in the area saw the act.
The Wah Ching Gang has an ongoing conflict with another rival Asian gang in LA, the Asian Boyz (ABZ) who also aligned themselves with the Vietnamese Boyz (VBZ) in opposition to Wah Ching. Wah Ching's move from its original home in the Bay Area to the southern California region is probably one of the sources of the disputes over gang turf.
Currently, the gang has shown signs of mixed ideology. Despite the fact that Wah Ching in Chinese literally means "Chinese Youth," there are still some individuals of non-Chinese descent who claim to be members of the gang.
Wah ching 23 B'z up C'z down. CK all day.
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Trousers that are lacking in the length department and hover around ones ankles, flapping like a birds wings in the wind, showing your socks and creating a down draft.
Look at that fella's wing-wahs, he should put jam on his shoes and invite his pants down for breakfast.
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(noun, adj.) a term used to describe something extremely unsafe, hazardous, or generally unfit for use. Named after the Chinatown bus company Fung Wah that was shut down by federal regulators from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in early 2013 due to failure to comply with investigators and refusing to release safety records after failing bus inspections.
Although a favorite with the budget-conscious traveling between Boston and New York, the bus line was well-known for its notorious reputation for poor maintenance to its crazy passengers that were loud and reeked of body odor and the smell of fast food brought along for the ride.
Can also be used to describe something generally lame or ghetto.
I live in the fung wah of apartments.
That's so fung wah.
Carnival is the fung wah of cruise ships.
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Dumbasses who aren't aware that the term voila is of French origin and activate the kindergarten sound-it-out method will use this term.
At first he had no fucking clue what he was doing, but after taking a few Xanax, wah lah! He was self-proclaimed Einstein calibre!
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(rhymes with "nah", pronounced in a curt and terse manner, often accompanied with a huffy cross-arms-over-chest pout, not to be confused with whine "waaaaaah")
a short, poignant expression of disappointment. kind of like the cliffnotes of a temper tantrum. used when you want to be a little bossy baby about something or in moments of frustrated exasperation or to indicate a moment where a single tear may fall down your cheek.
j: i miss you, wah.
j: this ice cream is so yummy!
k: i'm so fat, wah.
k: you can't suck my dick, this is the 5th time today!
j: wah.
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Derogatory term used to express satisfaction in anotherβs misfortune.
Ah Wah! I especially like the bit where the fat man fell on his arse.
Person 1: I fell on my arse
Person 2: AH WAH!
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1. The sound one makes after being told an extremely bad, old and/or corny joke.
2. A way to describe an old, obvious and/or corny joke.
Derived from the trumpet sound from the golden age cartoons after a very obvious joke or gag was performed.
Example 1:
Roger made so many bad plays on words, in leiu of calling himself "funny" he called himself, "Punny."
The crowd responded with a "WHANT WAH!"
Example 2:
The joke was so bad it was referred to as a "whant wah" joke.
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