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- noun Plural form of
haji .
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Examples
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He also recalls the fact that soldiers referred to Iraqis as "hajis" -- an Arabic term describing a person who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.
FOXNews.com 2009
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The all American boy with a heart of gold talks of his hate for "hajis" and wishes we could nuke the place.
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The all American boy with a heart of gold talks of his hate for "hajis" and wishes we could nuke the place.
Seriously 2005
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The all American boy with a heart of gold talks of his hate for "hajis" and wishes we could nuke the place.
Archive 2005-06-19 2005
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That's the way Operation Iraqi Freedom II felt from my vantage point on FOB Marez in Mosul in 2004: all the talk about "hajis" and the lack of talk about what we were doing there.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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If the IDF scrawls "death to Arabs" inside Gazan houses, US troops designate all Iraqis as "hajis", a twenty-first century version of "gook" or
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Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent 'hajis' who are their victims?
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Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent 'hajis' who are their victims?
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While campaigning for the Republican nomination in 2000, he was quoted as saying: "I hated the gooks [a derogatory reference to the Vietnamese; the equivalent in Iraq is" hajis "] and will continue to hate them as long as I live."
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Numerous accounts from soldiers include the prevalence of degrading terms for Iraqis, such as "hajis," "towel-heads" and "sand-niggers".
Dandelion Salad 2008
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