/ ˈtaɪpæn; NAmE / noun (from Chinese )
1.
a foreign person who is in charge of a business in China
2.
an extremely poisonous Australian snake
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WORD ORIGIN
sense 1 mid 19th cent.: from Chinese ( Cantonese dialect) daaihbāan .
sense 2 1930s: from Wik Munkan (an extinct Aboriginal language of North Queensland) dhayban .