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jap


adjective, noun Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.

  1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Japanese person.

noun Slang: Usually Disparaging and Offensive.

  1. a term used to refer to a pampered young Jewish-American woman, especially one who takes material advantages for granted.

  1. Japan.
  2. Japanese.

noun, adjective

  1. informal, often derogatory short for Japanese

abbreviation for

  1. US slang Jewish American Princess

abbreviation for

  1. Japan(ese)
n.

acronym for Jewish-American Princess, attested from 1971.

Colloquial abbreviation of Japanese, by 1880 as a noun, 1892 as an adjective, not originally pejorative but became so during World War II. It was protested by Japanese before the war, but did not begin to be taboo in the U.S. before 1960s. For some years after World War II in American English the word also functioned as a verb, “to execute a sneak attack upon,” a reference to Pearl Harbor.

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