Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of Italian birth or descent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as whop.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur A person of Italian descent.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent
Etymologies
- From Neapolitan guappo ("dude, stud"), a greeting borrowed from Spanish guapo ("bold, handsome"). Erroneously attributed to the initialism Without Papers. (Wiktionary)
- Italian dialectal guappo, thug, from Spanish guapo, handsome, dashing, braggart, bully, from French dialectal wape, rogue, from Latin vappa, flat wine, scoundrel. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“That the band wears their hearts on their sleeves while singing doo-wop is awesome enough; the fact that they write decent songs is all the more remarkable.”
“I'm guessing the folks telling you "wop" and "polack" jokes weren't actually doing so out of hatred so much as an attempt at bad taste fun...”
Eastwood thinks political correctness has made society humourless
“Living in New Hampshire into my teens, I learned how far bigotry can go, to the point where white kids would be calling each other derogatory names based on their ancestry from long ago -- ie: the kid whose grandfather was from italy became a "wop" and the kid whose great great grandma was Irish became a "mick" etc.”
“I named the guys Poison & Pain and they were hyping the crowd up behind me doing their "wop" and "running man" routines.”
“He was fairly certain that no door had said "wop" to him now.”
“There was a sad and terrible pause at this point in the conversation during which a hundred thousand people seemed unexpectedly to say "wop" and a team of white robots descended from the sky like dandelion seeds drifting on the wind in tight military formation.”
“It was a few hours later than this, as he stomped disconsolately about the darkened corridors swearing at cheerful doors, that he heard the "wop" said, and it made him very nervous.”
“He had been stomping around the Heart of Gold for days, and so far no door had said "wop" to him.”
“With a noise like a hundred thousand people saying "wop", a steely white spaceship suddenly seemed to create itself out of nothing in the air directly above the cricket pitch and hung there with infinite menace and a slight hum.”
“It sounded as if a hundred thousand people had said "wop", which puzzled him because he was the only person on the ship.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wop’.
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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Redundancing
The Moves. Do~do~ditty!
tango, bolero, cha cha, foxtrot, foxtantino, hip hop, hustle, jive, merengue, two step, paso doble, quickstep and 219 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Doo-it-yourself Doowop List
Just add a few of these words and phrases together to create your own doowop song.
doo wop, doo, wop, lama, shama, dong, ding, dooooo -wop-wop, shama lama, bom-bom-bom, doo-wop, shang-a-lang and 35 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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Name-Calling Humans
Terms of human exceptionalism, exclusivity, and 'types of'.
cablinasian, goyim, shiksa, gweilo, gaijin, banana, nigger, abc, fob, twinkie, oreo, ching chong and 48 more...
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boggled
legal according to the dicker we use
shaw, taw, nowt, tew, frit, scow, trow, dow, roan, stipe, shew, woad and 31 more...
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learnt from Scrabble
words I've seen played, raised eyebrows at and subsequently looked up — all real according to SOWPODS, the official international tournament word list
chiz, cru, fum, wop, dabster, alay, divi, tivy, weigela, izard, lamister, ket and 1 more...
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ethnic slurs
Different ways people insult people of other ethnic origins.
kike, nigger, nig, mick, polack, wetback, honky, jap, paki, towelhead, chink, coon and 24 more...
Tweets
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