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wop
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun wop has 1 sense
- wop(n = noun.person) dago, ginzo, greaseball, guinea - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent; Array is a kind of italian
OXFORD DICTIONARY
wop, n. sl. offens. an Italian or other S. European.
Etymology
20th c.: orig. uncert.: perh. f. It. guappo bold, showy, f. Sp. guapo dandy
ROGET THESAURUS
wop
Extraneousness
N extraneousness, extrinsicality, exteriority, alienage, alienism, foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element, alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant, creole, Africander, outsider, Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot, extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior, tramontane, ultramontane, excluded, inadmissible, exceptional, in foreign parts, in foreign lands, abroad, beyond seas, over sea on one's travels.
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