Jap
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Shortened from Japanese, attested as a noun since 1872, and adjectivally since 1878.[1] Compare Nip (shortened from Nippon).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
Jap (plural Japs)
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A Japanese person.
- 1872, James Brooks, A Seven Months' Run, Up, and Down, and Around the World:
- Among our Japs on board are two returning from Italy, where they have been with silk-worms' eggs, on cards, to sell. This has become a great speculation, and the Japs are going into it with zeal. The Japs almost always—always when they can—take cabin passages ; the Chinese seldom, or never.
- 1872, James Brooks, A Seven Months' Run, Up, and Down, and Around the World:
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TranslationsEdit
alternative term for Japanese
AdjectiveEdit
Jap (not comparable)
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) Japanese; of or pertaining to Japan or its people.
VerbEdit
Jap (third-person singular simple present Japs, present participle Japping, simple past and past participle Japped)
- Alternative letter-case form of jap
Proper nounEdit
Jap
- (slang, ethnic slur) The Japanese language.
- 2007, Les A. Murray, Fredy Neptune (page 239)
- He petered out under Pitty's savage look: Do you speak Jap? Do you understand the world from inside those bastards' slanty-eyed little head-lopping poem-writing minds?
- 2012, Robert Conroy, Rising Sun
- He said it in Japanese, which surprised the boy and stunned Cullen.
“You speak Jap?” asked Cullen.
“Looks like it, doesn't it?”
- He said it in Japanese, which surprised the boy and stunned Cullen.
- 2007, Les A. Murray, Fredy Neptune (page 239)