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JAP noun a spoiled Jewish girl or woman; a Jewish-American princess US The term was wildly popular in the early 1980s, with the expected onslaught of joke books, J.A.P. handbooks, etc.- “What we don’t want are JAPS, you know, Jewish American Princesses. Spoiled ... uptight ... never raises a hand to help if there’s a chance he’ll break a fingernail ... lies all day on the porch with a reflector when it’s 95 degrees.” — New York Magazine, p. 41, 19 May 1969
- The resident chaplain is a shy rabbi, one of the sexually active girls describes herself smugly as a Jewish American Princess and remnants of excruciating ethnic humor litter the comic junkheap. The parents of the J.A.P. are exploited for kneejerk ridicule[.] — Washington Post, p. D4, 26 May 1980
- Trent stops by and tells me about how “a couple of hystserical J.a.p.’s” in Bel Air have seen what they called some kind of monster, talk of a werewolf. — Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero, p. 77, 1985
- Q: What do J.A.P.’s most often make for dinner? A: Reservations. — Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yinglish, p. 250, 1989
- I was raised in the good life, destined for JAPhood–the coddled existence of a Jewish American Princess. — Cleo Odzer, Goa Freaks, p. 10, 1995
- “As long as you actually know what it’s like to be offended by terms like J.A.P.,” reasons Traig, “I think it’s okay to say them.” — East Bay Express (California), 27 March 2002
- He laid romantic bullshit onto 17-year-old JAPs from Great Neck[.] — Josh Friedman, When Sex Was Dirty, p. 37, 2005
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