wop

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  1. noun Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of Italian birth or descent.

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  • "What kind of a wop are you I'm a borrowing wop," she said. —  165 - The Devil Is Jones
  • Big, fierce machines, gas turbine engines, the unforgettable wop-wop-wop sound of a rotor blade forty-eight feet long and twenty-one inches wide.
  • The rotor noise was building to a loud wop-wop-wop.
  • Doo-wop is vocal-based rhythm-and-blues that gained popularity in black communities beginning in the late 1930s. —  Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories
  • Down and doo-wop: Vanessa Claire Smith and Jake Broder as the husband-and-wife team of —  LA Weekly | Complete Issue
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  1. Italian dialectal guappo, thug, from Spanish guapo, handsome, dashing, braggart, bully, from French dialectal wape, rogue, from Latin vappa, flat wine, scoundrel.
 

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