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La Merica : images of Italian greenhorn experience choose

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[US] M. La Sorte La Merica (2003) 138: an Italian was not an Italian. He was a wop, dago, duke, gin, tally, ghini, macaroni or spaghetti or spaghetti bender. He was also Hey Boy or Hey Youse, or he was given a generic name: Joe, Pete, Tony, Carlo, Dino, Gumba.
at guinea, n.1
[US] M. La Sorte La Merica (2003) 138: an Italian was not an Italian. He was a wop, dago, duke, gin, tallty, ghini, macaroni or spaghetti or spaghetti bender. He was also Hey Boy or Hey Youse, or he was given a generic name: Joe, Pete, Tony, Carlo, Dino, Gumba.
at macaroni, n.1
[US] M. La Sorte La Merica (2003) 138: An Italian was not an Italian. He was a wop, dago, duke, gin, tally, ghini, macaroni or spaghetti.
at spaghetti, n.
[US] M. La Sorte La Merica 138: An Italian was not an Italian. He was a wop, dago, duke, gin, tally, ghini, macaroni or spaghetti or spaghetti bender.
at spaghetti bender (n.) under spaghetti, n.
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