wop
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- noun
- /wɑp/
- Slur
- "You're one dumb fucking wop," I said.
- dumb wop
- fucking wop
- wop or a Mick
Examples
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"Hey, Bart, one wop to another, show some pity, eh?"
Fiction book (1991) -
What kind of flowers you want at your funeral, you dumb wop?
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The other guy we called Wop.
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- Damn right, you crazy wop.
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You look like a dumb wop to me.
Fiction book (1991) -
Ladies and gentlemen, make way for the wild and wicked wop.
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He's a wop genius.
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"When my grandparents came from Italy, WOPs and guineas were the butt of all jokes.
Blog text (3) -
When my dad says someone's a wop, it means he doesn't like him one bit because we're Italian, and it means that the wop is such a bad guy that he makes all the Italians look bad.
Fiction book (2002) -
He referred to his friend as a wop during their discussion about cultural stereotypes.
Synonyms
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A polite way to refer to a taboo or offensive word without saying it
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wop is a rude, offensive name for someone of Italian background and probably comes from the Italian/Neapolitan word guappo, which meant a bold, swaggering man like a 'thug' or 'dandy'. It became a hurtful term for Italian immigrants in the United States, and a wrong story says it came from the letters WOP meaning 'without papers', but the true link is to guappo, so the word is still very insulting today.