slant-eye n (slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War) Usage(s) Take the camp's Chinese cook Wu (Keone Young), who is the butt of slant-eye jokes but has an indispensable role. It lists such pejoratives as "spade," "nigger," "honky," "redskin," "gook" and "slant-eye" as nonformal and altogether ignores other, similar terms. Synonym(s) gook