Jap

Shortened from Japanese, attested as a noun since 1872, and adjectivally since 1878.[1] Compare Nip (shortened from Nippon).

• IPA^(key): /dʒæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Jap (plural Japs)

1. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A Japanese person.
   • 1872, James Brooks, A Seven Months' Run, Up, and Down, and Around the World:

     Among our Japs on board are two returning from Italy, where they have been with silk-worms' eggs, on cards, to sell. This has become a great speculation, and the Japs are going into it with zeal. The Japs almost always—always when they can—take cabin passages ; the Chinese seldom, or never.

• Japanese (neutral; non-offensive)
• Nip (pejorative, ethnic slur)

• Japland

• Japan

Jap (not comparable)

1. (derogatory, ethnic slur) Japanese; of or pertaining to Japan or its people.

Jap (third-person singular simple present Japs, present participle Japping, simple past and past participle Japped)

1. Alternative letter-case form of jap

Jap

1. (slang, ethnic slur) The Japanese language.
   • 2007, Les A. Murray, Fredy Neptune (page 239)

     He petered out under Pitty's savage look: Do you speak Jap? Do you understand the world from inside those bastards' slanty-eyed little head-lopping poem-writing minds?

   • 2012, Robert Conroy, Rising Sun

     He said it in Japanese, which surprised the boy and stunned Cullen.
     “You speak Jap?” asked Cullen.
     “Looks like it, doesn't it?”

• AJP, JPA, PJA, paj