wop
IPA: wˈɑp
noun
- (UK, US, possibly Australia, slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
- Acronym of workshop-oriented programming.
- Alternative letter-case form of wop (“derogatory: Italian”) [(UK, US, possibly Australia, slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.]
verb
- Alternative form of whop (“to hit or strike”) [(transitive, informal) To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.]
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Examples of "wop" in Sentences
- He was fairly certain that no door had said "wop" to him now.
- He had been stomping around the Heart of Gold for days, and so far no door had said "wop" to him.
- I named the guys Poison & Pain and they were hyping the crowd up behind me doing their "wop" and "running man" routines.
- I'm guessing the folks telling you "wop" and "polack" jokes weren't actually doing so out of hatred so much as an attempt at bad taste fun...
- That the band wears their hearts on their sleeves while singing doo-wop is awesome enough; the fact that they write decent songs is all the more remarkable.
- It was a few hours later than this, as he stomped disconsolately about the darkened corridors swearing at cheerful doors, that he heard the "wop" said, and it made him very nervous.
- With a noise like a hundred thousand people saying "wop", a steely white spaceship suddenly seemed to create itself out of nothing in the air directly above the cricket pitch and hung there with infinite menace and a slight hum.
- There was a sad and terrible pause at this point in the conversation during which a hundred thousand people seemed unexpectedly to say "wop" and a team of white robots descended from the sky like dandelion seeds drifting on the wind in tight military formation.
- Living in New Hampshire into my teens, I learned how far bigotry can go, to the point where white kids would be calling each other derogatory names based on their ancestry from long ago -- ie: the kid whose grandfather was from italy became a "wop" and the kid whose great great grandma was Irish became a "mick" etc.
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