Jap meaning

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Used as a disparaging term for a person of Japanese birth or ancestry.
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A Jewish-American girl or woman regarded as being pampered or overindulged.
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Japan.
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Japanese.
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A young, upper-middle-class Jewish woman thought of as being materialistic, spoiled, self-indulgent, etc.
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(pejorative, ethnic slur) A Japanese person.
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(pejorative, ethnic slur) Japanese; of or pertaining to Japan or its people.
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Origin of jap

Shortened from Japanese. Compare Nip (shortened from Nippon).

Sentence Examples

  • KURILES (Jap. Chishima, " thousand islands"), a chain of small islands belonging to Japan, stretching in a north-easterly direction from Nemuro Bay, on the extreme east of the island of Yezo, to Chishima-kaikyo (Kuriles Strait), which separates them from the southernmost point of Kamchatka.

  • This case was reported at once to the Jap commandant, who ordered us to move the man to Tarsau.

  • The order came for the Jap guards to batten down the holds.

  • My previous vehicle was a Jap import, a Toyota Surf, in fact it did belong to a Japanese gentleman from Osaka.

  • Jap import car insurance their coverage.

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