Wop

English

Noun

Wop (plural Wops)

1. Alternative letter-case form of wop (“derogatory: Italian”)
   • 1926, Mortimer Weinberg, Charley Marks, Harry Warren, Where Do You Work-a John?: Popular Standard; Single Songbook, Roba Digital Sheets, →ISBN:

     Where do you work-a, Wop?
     In da big-a da barber shop.
     What do you do-a, Wop?

   • 1999, Salvatore John LaGumina, Wop!: A Documentary History of Anti-Italian Discrimination in the United States, Guernica Editions, →ISBN, page 254:

     A Wop has to overcome more handicaps than a pure Anglo-Saxon, therefore he has to run twice as fast, or else he will be treated forever as a Wop. An alien, if he wants to have a chance, has to mix in some church or lodge or trade-union ...

Anagrams

• Pow, PWO, OPW, pow, P.O.W., PoW, POW