[tai.pan] n [Chin (Guangdong) daaih-baan, fr. daaih big + baan class] (1834): a powerful businessman and esp. formerly a foreigner living and operating in Hong Kong or China
[2]tai.pan n [Wik Munkan (Australian aboriginal language of northern Queensland) dhayban] (1933): an exceedingly venomous elapid snake (Oxyuranus scutellatus) of northern Australia and New Guinea