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Exotic Asian lot? (8)

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laotians

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'exotic asian lot?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and 'lot?' are nouns, they are not in the same form of the noun.

'exotic asian lot?' is the wordplay.
'exotic' indicates an anagram (an unusual form of the letters).
'asian'+'lot'='asianlot'
'asianlot' is an anagram of 'LAOTIANS'.

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