Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a derog. term meaning East Asian, esp. Japanese.

1865		Daily Tel. 17 Nov. 5/2: A slant-eyed, saffron-coloured race [OED].
1870		J.G. Whittier ‘Miriam’ Poetical Works (1879) 420/2: The slant-eyed sages of Cathay .
1895		Truth (Sydney) 28 Apr. 4/6: Had the city been attacked by a Japanese fleet in real earnest, we now be forced by the slant-eyed Mikado’s rule to wear paper clothes, and eat snails on toast.
1896		S. Crane in Sun (N.Y.) 20 Oct. in Stallman (1966) 146: Yet the [opium] pipe is sufficient for its slant-eyed lover.
1901		Marvel XV:387 Apr. 2: ‘See here, you slant-eyed demons,’ roared the cook.
1904		Sun. Times (Perth) 10 July 10/7: White women Debauched beyond redemption in the bondage of opium and the more loathsome bondage of slant-eyed satyrs.
1905		Sun. Times (Perth) 1 Jan. 5/1-3: why westralia is not white. How the Slant-eyed Pagan Makes his Entry — In Evasion of the Immigration Act.
1907		N.Z. Truth 26 Jan. 6/5: Shameless white New Zealand females are promiscuously cohabiting with and marrying these slant-eyed Celestial sinner .
1917		‘A-No. 1’ From Coast to Coast with Jack London 78: The basement dens of vice of various degrees of viciousness presided over by slant-eyed Orientals.
[1917		‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 4: In this hurly-burly of drunken convicts and deserting sailors, of slit-eyed Chinese and apt-handed Lascars].
1929		S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 169: A slant-eyed Oriental named John Chinaman.
1930		R.E. Howard ‘Winner Take All’ Fight Stories July 🌐 ‘But why was that slant-eye tryin’ to knife you?’ [Ibid.] ‘He fired me because I wouldn’t let him get fresh with me—the old slant-eyed snake.’.
1938		X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) 281: Slant-eyed lousy cowardly Chinee barsted!
1939		Rover 18 Feb. 28: None of the slant-eyed johnnies thought he’d be ‘ass’ enough to carry his ‘moke’ when it gave up the ghost.
1941		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 297: Said a slant-eyed young jade of Japan.
1942		R.L. Bellem ‘Million Buck Snatch!’ Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 saw a slant-eyed Chinese waiter go down, punch the floor with his flat face.
1957		J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 86: You slant-eyed Mongolian pig.
1960		A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 67: They are far inferior to the lant-eyed beauties of the Orient.
1963		Aus. Women’s Wkly 18 Sept. 15/1: ‘Hong Kong’ slant-eyed oriental beauties.
1967		M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 67: Go screw yourself, you slant-eyed bastard.
1971		T. Whitmore Memphis-Nam-Sweden 102: Just fuckin’ gooks. Japanese. Chinese. Vietnamese. They’re all slanty-eyed li’l bastards.
1977		L. Heinemann Close Quarters (1987) 19: Yo boo-coo VC, you lyin’ slant-eyed, skinny-legged dink.
1986		R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 51: You think she was the only slant-eyed cunt running around with a butterfly on her ass?
1997		(con. 1950s) J. Byrne Slab Boys [film script] 116: You had to jump to it out there wi’ your slant-eyed snipers up every second palm tree.
1999		‘Master Pimp’ Pimp’s Rap 176: All them slant eye motherfuckers get together [...] and come up with a hundred G’s.
2000		Guardian Rev. 21 Apr. 23: Slanty-eye joke.
2001		(con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 14: Blow me down if we didn’t teach a few slanty-eyed saber-rattlers a lesson they’ll not forget.
2006		C. Carr Our Town 278: ‘Slant-eyed son-of-a-bitchin’ gooks that you was paid a few bucks to kill and the son-of-a-bitches beat you back home!’ he fumed.
2011		D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 16: [A] Louisiana boy who wore a swamp rat’s foot around his neck to ward off slant-eyed bullets.