Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a Pole.

c.1600		Shakespeare Hamlet I i: So frown’d he once, when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.
1883		Dly Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 19 Apr. 3/3: Pa sent me up into the Polack’s settlement to see if I could borrow a milk goat.
1894		F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 347: I seen Tim Dorsey’s little woman carryin’ a loaf iv bread an’ a ham to the Polack’s this noon.
1895		S. Crane in Plumbers’ Trade Journal 1 Jan. in Stallman (1966) 122: There he saw a concourse of Slavs, Polacs, Italians and hungarians [...] floundering about in the mud.
1897		F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 218: A Polacker be th’ name iv Kozminski.
1899		A. Binstead Houndsditch Day by Day 122: A low pullack collectin’ orferins for the Society in a sardine tin.
1900		Congressional Record 7 Feb. 1625/2: I have some Polacks in my district, and [...] the blood of Pulaski, the brave Pole who fell at Savannah in the defense of American liberty, has never been avenged [DA].
1901		Monroe & Northup ‘College Words and Phrases’ in DN II:iii 145: Pollock, n. A Pole.
1902		Sun (NY) 12 Oct. 18/2: ‘What?’ says I, putting on the moon-face of a Polack .
1910		F.P. Dunne Mr. Dooley Says 27: Gr-reat sturdy American pathrites like Mulkowsky th’ Pollacky down the street.
1911		S. Ford Torchy 147: Before he has time to pipe off the bunch of Polackers that’s come to a parade rest around us, I makes a dive.
1917		E. Hemingway letter 19 Sept. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 2: I wanted to hire the Polacks to pick up but they wanted 5c a bush.
1919		W.J. Schira diary 13 Mar. 🌐 Got in another nut yesterday, a big burly Pollock.
1922		E.E. Cummings Enormous Room (1928) 88: Get out of the way, you dam Polak!
1927		W. Edge Main Stem 1: Lunch alone in a bar-room crowded with Polacks who smelled vilely and talked gibberish.
1934		(con. 1920s) J.T. Farrell Young Manhood in Studs Lonigan (1936) 230: The Jews and the Polacks will be stepping all over them.
1939		H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 122: His father was nothing but a drunken Polak.
1948		(con. 1944) N. Mailer Naked and Dead 465: What a dumb Polack his old man had been.
1949		N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 51: I want you to meet the best pal a Polak ever had.
1953		L. Uris Battle Cry (1964) 24: Sure, I’m a dumb Polack.
1959		W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 99: Sulky blond Pollacks with animal brown eyes.
1959		G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 133: The Polacki in the white duffle coat had his arm about her.
1964		H. Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn 83: She was a bighipped Polack and even her oldman didn’t know she was knockedup.
1972		G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 41: You can’t talk about the Polack, you can’t talk about the Polack.
1989		T. Blacker Fixx 101: The scheming Polack had worked something out.
1990		J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 381: Them Polacks can do something besides go on strike!
2004		K. Bruen ‘Fade To . . . Brooklyn’ in Brooklyn Noir 308: If only I hadn’t shot that Polack.
2017		T. Pluck Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] ‘You gonna arrest me, you dumb Polack?’.

2. (mainly Jewish) a Jew whose family come from Poland.

1901		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 16 Jan. 1/6: What won’t a ‘Pullack’ do for good gold.
1929		W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 4 Apr. [synd. col.] The Yiderati are claiming Joan Lowell for their ‘Who’s Who’ [...] She’s a Polack.
1955		B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook]‘ You’re Irish,’ he said to Georgie. ‘You, you’re a Polack,’ he said to Joey.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 71: A neighbourhood of polacks and schvartzas.