Jap adj.
pertaining to Japan or Japanese lifestyle/culture.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | diary 15 May in Barnes Naval Surgeon (1963) 189: Saw Jap town by moonlight. [Ibid.] 13 June 201: Jap coal is worse than our bituminous coal at home. | |
 | Montgomery Ward Catalog n.p.: Ladies’ short silk waists, made of plain colored Habutai Jap silk [R]. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Otago Witness (NZ) 5 Aug. 52/5: [headline] The Jap Ear for Music. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sporting Times 20 Jan. 2/4: The performance of a tiny Jap boy of the O’Kabe family of acrobats. | |
| You Can Search Me 47: I wanted to go through the parlour floor [...] and let a Jap shell knock my silly head off. | |
| ‘Clipped Words’ in DN IV:ii 136: Jap, from Japanese. ‘This is a Jap kimono.’. | |
| letter 9 Aug. in Mitgang (1968) 105: Thanks for the Jap book. | |
| This Side of Paradise in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald III (1960) 162: We’ll get a Jap butler and dress for dinner and have wine on the table. | |
| New York Day by Day 25 July [synd. col.] Two obsequious Jap servants were ministering to his wants. | |
| Yes Man’s Land 9: Lawns being sprinkled by Jap gardners. | |
| Marsh 263: There’s nothing quite so beautiful as a ship coming up the river [...] A Jap she is, Dan boy. See the Rising Sun? | |
| 18 Dec. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 58: Kumming had been bombed this morning by ten Jap bombers. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Courtship of Uncle Henry 25: Got his at Buna from a burst of Jap machine gun bullets through the left jaw. | |
| Small Time Crooks 19: Miky got a momentary picture of that full, soft body wrapped in a Jap silk kimono. | |
| ‘The Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 127: Forty-five if he looked a day, as if he’d just been let out of a Jap prisoner-of-war camp. | |
| letter 26 June in Proud Highway (1997) 621: I’d like to have BSA, Greeves and at least one smaller Jap bike. | |
| Sir, You Bastard 188: Snazzy Jap job. | |
| Blood Brothers 235: When they’d finished Tommy saw the bloodstains and said, ‘Hey! It’s a Jap flag!’. | |
| Traveller’s Tool 18: There’d be a lot more Jap restaurants in Los Angeles. | |
| Indep. Rev. 7 June 7: Some carefully selected black Jap objets. | |
| Jake’s Long Shadow 35: It’s a Jap import, the Nips’ discards for us bottom-of-the-heap Kiwis to buy at rip-off prices. |
In compounds
(UK society) Japanese porcelain .
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 159/1: Jap crock (Soc., 1860 on). Any piece of Japanese porcelain of a value from £10,000 to a mere 10d. |
(US) chow mein .
| Altoona Trib. (PA) 13 July 12/3: [headline] Chicken and Jap Hash Served to Pennsy General Supt. | |
| Lansing State Jrnl (MN) 15 May 5/1: Buy a war bond / With spare cash / To get a bomb / To make Jap hash. | |
| Maledicta III:2 164: Jap hash n Chow mein or chop suey. |
(N.Z.) a prostitute who specializes in Asian or Japanese customers .
| Truth (Sydney) 19 Jan. 7: Those [i.e. prostitutes] who specialise in Japanese are called ‘Jap molls’, then there are ‘Asian molls’, Scannies, for those who go with Scandinavians. | |
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 13: Asian moll A prostitute who services Asian fishermen. |
(Aus. prison) sandals; thongs.
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Jap safety boots. Thongs or sandals. |
(US campus) a motorcycle or appliance made in Japan, slightly derog.
| Batimore Sun (MD) 4 May C19/2: [advert] Jap Scrap as usual all internal motor parts all makes. | |
| Times (Shreveport, LA) 21 June 21/5: If we don’t stop this Jap scrap from coming into our country, our country is doomed. | |
| Campus Sl. Mar. 6: japscrap – motorcycle [...] made in Japan. | |
| Indep. on Sun. Real Life 1 Aug. 1: Japanese bikes [...] The British bike owners call them ‘Jap Scrap’. |
(gay) the penis of an Asian man.
| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 235: Jap-stick = small oriental phallus (after US brand Chapstick). |