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- noun Plural form of
Jap .
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Examples
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Rarely did he use the term Japs and he never referred to the enemy as Nips.
The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003
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Rarely did he use the term Japs and he never referred to the enemy as Nips.
The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003
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Rarely did he use the term Japs and he never referred to the enemy as Nips.
The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003
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Immigration and Naturalization Service. attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Life magazine published an article headlined "How to tell Japs from the Chinese."
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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So the "Japs" - that's what we called them then - had to go.
Rather than do so, I would suffer my auction to be taken shunn 2004
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So the "Japs" - that's what we called them then - had to go.
Rather than do so, I would suffer my auction to be taken shunn 2004
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“The modern Jap”: “How to Tell Japs from the Chinese,” Life, December 22, 1941, p.
Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
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The Japs are a wonderful race; they seem to be the happiest people going, always smiling and good-natured, always polite and gentle, always bowing and scraping.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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But, remember this, Roddy, "his father continued sententiously," the Japs are the Jews of the present.
The White Mice Richard Harding Davis 1890
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The complex relationship between the French and the natives is not touched upon politically, but personally -- as at the time the "Japs" (I can't believe they let that stay in the script in these "sensitive times") were the enemy to all.
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