wop

• IPA^(key): /wɒp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

From Neapolitan guappo (“dude, stud”), a greeting borrowed from Spanish guapo (“bold, handsome”). Contrary to popular belief, the term is not an acronym of without passport or working off passage, which are backronyms derived from the term.

wop (plural wops)

1. (UK, US, Australia, slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.

• (person of Italian descent): dago, Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, guinea, pizzahead, wog

wop (third-person singular simple present wops, present participle wopping, simple past and past participle wopped)

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

• Pow, PWO, OPW, pow, P.O.W., PoW, POW

• weop, wope

Inherited from Old English wōp, from Proto-West Germanic *wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz.

• IPA^(key): /woːp/

wop (plural wopes)

1. Lamentation, crying, or weeping.

• English: woop, whoop

• “wọ̄p(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.

From Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“clamour, weeping”).

• IPA^(key): /woːp/

wōp m (nominative plural wōpas)

1. weeping, lamentation

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: wop, weop, wope
  • English: woop, whoop

wōp

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of wēpan

wop

1. water

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66