fresh off the boat

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Definition of fresh off the boat in English English dictionary

Newly arrived from a foreign place, especially as an immigrant who is still unfamiliar with the customs and language of his or her new environment

Metropolis is the story of a harmless, hapless, nameless young German immigrant, fresh off the boat in 1860-something, who has a knack for naively stumbling into complicated plots through no fault of his own.

Fresh off the boat (often abbreviated as F.O.B., FOB, F.O.T.B., FOTB, fobbish, freshie,boat,fobster, or fobbie) is a slang phrase applied to people of foreign nationality who have arrived in a host nation as tourists, immigrants, students, or, most commonly, as work permit applicants. The term is commonly applied to Eastern and Southern Pacific Asians, as well as South Asians, in the United States, Canada and Australia, as well as to Pacific Islanders in Australia and New Zealand. It was originally applied to European immigrants to America who had just stepped off of ship

Turkish pronunciation

freş ôf dhi bōt

Synonyms

fob

Pronunciation

/ˈfresʜ ˈôf ᴛʜē ˈbōt/ /ˈfrɛʃ ˈɔːf ðiː ˈboʊt/