Word: wopping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Literally meaning "haughty," guappo is used in Neapolitan argot to denote a petty big shot, found its way into American slang in the early days of the melting pot as the uncomplimentary term "wop...
...byproducts may now be freely depicted, but only if damned on all counts. ¶ Bigotry and Prejudice. Miscegenation may now be handled discreetly, but anything inciting hatred among peoples is taboo. To be "avoided": the use of the words "chink, dago, frog, greaser, hunkie, kike, nigger, spik, wop...
...world, eh?" F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was "poor stuff." Said Mencken of Hemingway: "The man can't write. Just a bad boy, who's probably afraid of the dark." As for Faulkner, "there is no more sense in him than in the wop boob, Dante . . . the man hasn't the slightest idea of sentence structure or paragraphing." Angoff drops an amusing footnote to the famed "Hatrack" episode in which Mencken got himself arrested in Boston for peddling an issue of the Mercury, banned for its story, by Herbert Asbury, of a southeast Missouri...
Carmine found out soon enough that kings are made, not born, in New York's racial and cultural jungles. De Sapio still winces when reminded of the "Wop" cry that came at him from all sides in his boyhood. The fact of his Italian ancestry has followed him always. It held him back in politics for precious years. De Sapio is talking about the old Irish bosses when he says, with low-keyed but intense anger, "I was the first leader they really gave the treatment to; I had to win three elections before they would seat...
...said, 'We had a close one the other night.' I said, 'Yeah?' So he goes on to tell me that [Jimmy] Ferraco and [Albert] Anastasia and himself were in a house waiting for somebody to bring some wop out there that they were supposed to kill and bury...