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gook
noun- a Vietnamese person, especially if an enemy of the US; a person from the Far East, especially a Filipino, Japanese or Korean; any dark-skinned foreigner US, 1919
A derogatory term, too all-encompassing to be directly racist but deeply xenophobic. Coined by the US military; the Korean and Vietnam wars gave the word a worldwide familiarity (if not currency). Etymology is uncertain, but many believe “gook” is Korean for “person”. - — American Speech, p. 55, February 1947: “Pacific War language”
- “Hey, you,” Brody shrieked at the Filipinos ahead, “hey, you Gooks, take off those shirts. You want to get us ambushed?” — Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, p. 137, 1951
- She probably only wore a look which I took to be “frightened,” and which may just have been her habitual absent-minded gook-stare[.] — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 277, 3 January 1951
- When arrested for sodomy in Indonesia, Clem said to the examining magistrate: “Tain’t as if it was being queer. After all they’s only Gooks.” — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 158, 1957
- — American Speech, p. 120, May 1960: “Korean bamboo English”
- Before she finished hers, a sleek-looking gook in sharp duds came over and without looking at me asked her to dance. — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 62, 1963
- We’ve been stomping from one village to the next. Flushing out them gooks. — The Berkeley Barb, p. 3, 3 December 1965
- Kill ‘em, kill ‘em, strafe those gook creeps! — The Fugs, Kill for Peace, 1966
- Years later when the dudes are fat, middle-aged men they get together and reminisce about all the “gooks” they killed[.] — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 39, 1969
- But that’s a fucking Viet Cong flag they’ve got there! We’re at war with those gooks, for Chrissake! — Terry Southern, Blue Movie, p. 212, 1970
- They figure what’s another gook more or less. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 34, 1970
- But he didn’t think of it as hurting a person. It was justs a gook and they were not people, you know. — John Kerry, The New Soldier, p. 60, 1971
- The gook was waiting, lying on the gorund, no more than two meters from the door. — Ronald J. Glasser, 365 Days, p. 6, 1971
- The artillery dudes and straight-leg grunts and the gooks was doin’ it hand to hand. — Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters, p. 29, 1977
- He was A.R.V.N. patrols and had one a them little cocky gook asshole Lieutenants. — Apocalypse Now, 1979
- “The word ‘gooks.’ Does this mean the enemy? Or civilians? Or both?” Farley seemed glad someone posed an easy question. “Gooks could be both.” — Nelson DeMille, Word of Honor, p. 414, 1985
- Nixon went half-mad with rage at the very idea of such a thing, much less the televised reality of a few dozen gooks in black pajamas actually fired weapons into the U.S. Embassy compound. — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed, p. 238, 1985
- I learned early that “Gook,” meaning any North Korean soldier, and UTA, “up to the ass,” meaning abundance, were the most frequently used expressions in conversation. — William B. Hopkins, One Bugle No Drums, p. 41, 1986
- Y’hear the story the gooks is putting chemicals in the grass so’s we become pacifists so’s we don’ fight. — Platoon, 1986
- One day while crawling through the jungle trees / Sam shot a gook right in the knees. — Sandee Shaffer Johnson, Cadences, p. 140, 1986
- Oh, there are some soldiers thought Code Six as he watched, soldiers like Jimmy and I were, fighting the fucking GOOKS and SLANTS and SLOPES, soldiers trotting single file across a smoking field. — William T. Vollman, Whores for Gloria, p. 36, 1991
- the Vietnamese language; any Asian language US
- Bozwell wass with a dink the night Violet met him and they talked a few words of gook. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Glitter Dome, p. 157, 1981
- an unspecified, unidentified, unpleasant, viscous substance US, 1942
Sometimes spelt “guck”. - [T]his kind of gas has a great deal of O-Octane gook in it[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 209, 1957
- “How long’s this gonna take?” “Until we get all this guck off the top,” she said. — Phil Hirsch, Hooked, p. 145, 1968
- I never want to be stuck with some hag with gook falling off her face and me taking it. — Ask, p. 65, 21 April 1979
- You messed up the wall the last time – all that guck you slicked your hair down with. — Elmore Leonard, City Primeval, p. 84, 1980
- the recreational drug GHB US
- Investigators say GHB is a powerful drug that also goes by the nicknames of Gook, Easy Lay, Gamma 10 and Liquid X. — The Houston Chronicle, p. 17, 10 September 1996
- nonsense US
- “I think all that gook is self-evident. I don’t think he’s been around much.” — Glendon Swarthout, Where the Boys Are, pp. 150–151, 1960
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