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  • n  (slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War)

  • 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.

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