wop

plural wops

1. ethnicslurA person of Italian descent.

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   Detective J.J. McVea of the Charles street station, who arrested the boys, says that the robbery of the safe was a remarkable one and showed no trace of amateurism. It was committed by four boys. Besides Lyons and Murphy, he says, there were in it Albert Moquin, 14 years old, of 68 West Third street, and one whom Lyons calls “Oscar the Wop,” or “Oscar the Dago.”

   1906 February 16, “[arrests for a larceny]”, in The Sun, New York City, U.S.

   There was a time, not very long ago, when you couldn't find a Wop -- that means an Italian in the latest downtown dialect -- in Danny's resort even by using a microscope. But to-day it's different. The members of the Five Points gang, all dark skinned sons of Sicily, grew tired of flitting from place to place, with no set rendezvous for their nightly gatherings. A number of the Pointers used to frequent the place, and it wasn't long before the entire gang became regulars.

   1906 November 18, The Sun, New York City, U.S., page 16

   The northern Jews have historical proof of their valor and finesse in the ring, but in recent years the Jews from southeastern Europe, who are popularly supposed to settle their personal differences by pulling each other's hair and weeping, have produced many clever boxers. But who would expect Italy to take a hand in this great Northern game? I have been there twenty times and I never once saw a blow struck with the fist. Yet, there are some very competent Italian fighters. It is hardly possible to go to an entertainment at the 'club' without seeing a wop as he is called by the votaries of the game, matched against a bruiser from the native land of John L. Sullivan.

   1909 October 9, “NATIONS THAT PRODUCE THE BEST PRIZE FIGHTERS.”, in Brooklyn Times-Union, Brooklyn, New York, U.S., page 13

present singular third person wops · participle present wopping · participle past wopped · past wopped

1. alternativeAlternative form of whop (“to hit or strike”).

plural Wops

1. Alternative letter-case form of wop (“derogatory: Italian”).

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

   1926, Mortimer Weinberg, Charley Marks, Harry Warren, Where Do You Work-a John?: Popular Standard; Single Songbook, Roba Digital Sheets, →ISBN

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   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 ...

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

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of workshop-oriented programming.

   The success of the Traub WOP system has encouraged other manufacturers to produce their own WOP systems. However, there are reports from Germany that some WOP systems are not as flexible as Traub's.

   1994, Waldemar Karwowski, Gavriel Salvendy, Organization and Management of Advanced Manufacturing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 182

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   To exemplify the significance of government policy we refer to the German government-sponsored WOP-programme on "shopfloor-oriented programming of CNC-machine tools" (Nuber, et al., 1989 and WOP Conference Materials, 1987).

   1990, Waldemar Karwowski, Mansour Rahimi, Ergonomics of Hybrid Automated Systems II: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing and Hybrid Automation, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., August 12-16, 1990, Elsevier Science Limited