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wop noun an Italian immigrant or Italian-American US, 1914- [B]ut under Louie the Wop’s auspices they were treated to jam sessions night after night[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, pp. 92–93, 1946
- Then the stockboy–a hot-looking wop with long hair–took me out in his department to show me the new materials–and the place was deserted. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 298, 1949
- She’s just a stupid wop, and so you only take her to the subway, eh? — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 88, 1952
- PEPE: Micks! INDIO: Wop! — Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story, 1957
- Chicago: invisible hierarchy of decorticated wops, small of atrophied gangsters, earthbound ghost hits you at North and Halstead, Cicero, Lincoln Park, panhandler of dreams[.] — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 11, 1957
- Eventually I relinquished presidency of the Knights to a fat loquacious slob named Richard who led us one night into a riot with the wops from east of Sacramento Boulevard. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 351, 1961
- Can’t cop till I see the wops tomorrow. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 48, 1968
- Let the boogies and wops kill each other, Cockroach once told him. — Gilbert Sorrentino, Steelwork, p. 15, 1970
- Lemme tell you about them rumbles. The wops said no spics could go east of Park Avenue. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 8, 1975
▶ up the wop- pregnant NEW ZEALAND, 1981
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 150, 1999
- broken; unsound NEW ZEALAND
- The next thing Mr. Cooper assesses is participants’ seating positions–half are declared “up the wop” and remedied. — Dominion, p. 10, 1 September 2001
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