| Gorilla Head | Whites | Popular White 80s hairstyle called a 'mullet' is similar to a gorilla: short on top and long in the back. Countless small-town White folk still sport them. |
| Powerpoint | Asians | Used mainly by Australians. Australian electricity outlets are commonly called power points, they are said to look like a stick figure drawing of an Asian face. |
| Prairie-Nigger | Native Americans | Self-explanatory. |
| Pretendian | Native Americans | Native Americans who claim to be pure, but are just mixed-breeds. I suppose this could refer to any mixed -ian race. |
| Pubie | Blacks | Refers to the pubic-like hair on blacks' heads. |
| Puckhead | Canadians | For their love of hockey. |
| Pull-Start | Arabs | Reference to pulling their turbans off their heads. |
| Punjab | Indians | Punjab is the Indian character from "Little Orphan Annie." |
| Push-Start | Indians | Refers to the caste-mark (dot) on their foreheads. |
| Race-Traitor | Mixed Races | Term used by whites for any person of mixed race or who marries a non-white.. |
| Rag-head | Arabs | Referring to turbans, a Muslim headdress. Also: Towel-head. |
| Ragu | Italians | Spaghetti sauce. |
| Rail-Hopper | Chinese | In early America many Chinese were sent to build the railroads. |
| Red | Native Americans | Skin color. |
| Red (2) | Russians | Refers to the color of revolution, as well as old Red Russia. Too, "Red Army." See J. Edgar Hoover's use. |
| Red Coat | British | Used during the Revolutionary War, because of the Red coats the British army wore. |
| Red Sea Pedestrian | Jews | Because Moses walked them through the Red Sea. |
| Redneck | Whites | Previously referred only to the rural prejudice whites, mostly farmers, who have reddish necks (or a "farmer's tan"). However, its usage has become a lot looser and now includes any racist white. See: Peckerwood |
| Redskin | Native Americans | Skin color. |
| Regin | Blacks | Niger backwards. |
| Rice-Eater | Asians | Popular food among Asians. |
| Rice-Paddy | Asians | Places where they grow rice in Asia and Japan. |
| Rice-Picker | Asians | Because they pick rice. Probably the Asian version of 'Cotton Picker.' |
| River-Crosser | Mexicans | Self-explanatory. |
| Roach-Rancher | Arabs | Their apartments often have roaches, which they are forbidden to kill. |
| Rosbif | British | French equivalent of 'Frog.' |
| Round-Eye | Whites | Japanese derogatory term for American whites. |
| Rube | Whites | In the same league as hick. See: Hick. |
| Rug-Pilot | Arabs | The whole magic carpet thing. |
| Rug-Rider | Arabs | See: Rug Pilot. |
| Ruskie | Russians | The Russian word for the Russian language is pronounced "pa-rooski." Was popular during the Cold War. |
| Sambo | Blacks | Derives from the traditional children's story, "The Story of Little Black Sambo". |
| Sand Moolie | Arabs | Same idea as Sand Nigger, only with Moolie. |
| Sand Nigger | Arabs | They look like blacks and they live in deserts, hence the name. |
| Sassenach | British | From Scotland. Link |
| Sayeedi/Saeedi | Egyptians | Used by Cairenes to refer to inhabitants of Upper Egypt. |
| Scheiss-Ami | Americans | Used by Germans as derogatory reference of Americans. |
| Schiptar | Albanians | U.S. Army in Kosovo. |
| Scratch-Back | Mexicans | Mexicans (illegals) who crawl under fences to get across the California or Arizona border instead of swimming the Rio Grande. |
| Seagull | Filipinos | Possibly from how Filipinos often travel overseas to work like migratory birds (although the seagull is not migratory...). Heard in Japan, used by non-Japanese. |
| Seinfeld | Jews | Probably one of the most famous Jews. |
| Semi-Simian | Blacks | Self-explanatory. |
| Semihole | Native Americans | Referring to the Seminole tribe. |
| Seppo | Americans | Short for Septic, see Septic. |
| Septic | Americans | Cockney rhyming slang. Septic Tank - Yank: Full of shit. |
| Shadow-Smurf | Blacks | They the darkest of all Smurfs. |
| Shagitz | Whites | Masculine form of Shiksa (Latin, q.v.) |
| Sheeny | Jews | From Yiddish "shaine" or German "schon" meaning "beautiful". |
| Sheepfucker | Scottish or Welsh | There's a myth that Scotsmen and/or Welsh have a thing for buggering sheep. On an interesting note, the first sheep was cloned in Scotland. |
| Sheister | Jews | Like a shyster lawyer. One who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way. |
| Shiksa | Whites | Refers to white women. Literally means "meat". Loosely means "whore". Term used in Jewish religious books such as the Talmud when referring to white gentile women. |
| Shine | Blacks | A 1920's main occupation, shoe shiners. |
| Shiner | Blacks | Sometimes had the common job of shining shoes. |
| Shit-Kicker | Whites | From farmers or country boys walking through the cow pastures. |
| Shovel-Head | Koreans | Believed their heads look like shovels. |
| Shvartz | Blacks | Yiddish (German origin) word for Black. Used neutrally and disparagingly. |
| Shylock | Jews | Comes from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and "Othello". Similar to sheister. |
| Silvery | Blacks | Cockney rhyming slang for Coon - Silvery Moon - Silvery. |
| Skimo | Eskimo | Derogatory slang of 'Eskimo'. |
| Skinflint | Blacks | Skin appearance related. |
| Skip | Whites | White Australians specifically. From "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo." |
| Slant | Asians | Facial description -- referring to the eyes. |
| Slantey-eye'd | Asians | Facial description -- referring to the eyes. |
| Slave | Blacks | Self-explanatory. |
| Slope-head | Asians | Facial description, Self-explanatory. |
| Smoke Jumper | Whites | White women who date Black men. |
| Snigger | Blacks | "Snow nigger." Black people seen on the ski slopes; a stereotype that they generally don't go skiing because they dislike the cold. |
| Snowback | Canadians | Play on 'wet-back'. |
| Snowflake | Blacks | Was used to indicate an educated black man during the civil war; white collar blacks were pretty rare - only white people had desk jobs. |
| Sorta Rican | Puerto Rican | Mix of Puerto Rican and any other race. Read in National Lampoon. |
| Spade | Blacks | Spades are black. |
| Spear Chucker | Blacks | Comes from the hunting styles of African natives. |
| Spic | Hispanics | Short for Hispanic. Might also be acronym of SPanish, Indian, and Colored, coming from the mixed breeds that resulted from the union of Spanish colonists, Indian natives, and Black (colored) slaves. |
| Spigger | Mixed Races | A mix between 'nigger' and 'spic.' |
| Spizzician | Mixed Races | Hispanic/Guatemalan mix. Pronounced "spizzz-ik-ien." |
| Splib | Blacks | Heard in Vietnam by Blacks. |
| Spoda | Blacks | How blacks talk (ex.) "We ain't Spoda be here." (we aren't supposed to be here) |
| Spook | Blacks | Because of their dark skin, which can blend into the night, making them ghost-like. |
| Spoon | Asians/Blacks | From the reflection you see when looking at a spoon. Not sure about using this on Asians. Blacks is obvious because of the big lips reflection. |
| Sputnik | Russians | The world's first artificial satellite sent into space. Not really a heinous threat, but sounds that way. |
| Squarehead | Germans or Swedes | Shape of head, late 19th/early 20th century American word. |
| Squaw | Native Americans | Refers to Native American women. It's a derogatory name for the vagina, hence impetus for movements to ban usage by schools, geographical features, roads, etc. |
| Squint/Squinty | Asians | Referring to their eyes. |
| Stovepipe | Blacks | Stovepipes from wood-fired stoves get encrusted with black soot, hence the association. |
| Swirl Baby | Mixed Races | Self-explanatory. |
| Tabeetsu | Whites | Used by Chinese. Means "great-nosed ones". |
| Table Face | Asians | They tend to have flat faces. |
| Taco Bender | Mexican | Self-explanatory. |
| Taffy | Welsh | From a poem that starts: "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief..." |
| Tape Head | Asians | Facial characteristics--slanted eyes as if someone pulled back their eyes using Scotch tape around the back of their head. |
| Tar Baby | Blacks | Skin color. |
| Target | Iraqis | Gulf War related. |
| Teabag | British | Self-explanatory. |
| Terrence | Blacks | Common name? Someone famous? |
| Three-Fifth (3/5) | Blacks | Same vain as Point-Six. In reference to the 3/5ths Compromise, where the US Gov't decided that slaves (Blacks) only counted as 3/5ths of a person for population reasons. |
| Toad | French | ? Frog-related, see: frog. |
| Tobey | Blacks | Reference to the character in "Roots." |
| Tomato Picker | Mexicans | Mexicans pick tomatoes. |
| Towel-head | Arabs | Referring to turbans, a Muslim headdress. Also: Rag-head. |
| Trash | Whites | Self-explanatory. Usually used as "White trash," "Poor white trash," or "Trailer trash." |
| Twinkie | Asians | An Asian-American who has lost their heritage. Yellow on the outside, white on the inside. |
| Uncle Tom | Blacks | Blacks who suck up to white people. In reference to the Uncle Tom character in the famous 1852 book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| Velcro-head | Blacks | Characteristics of the hair. |
| Wab | Hispanics | Short for Wet-Back. See: Wet-Back. |
| Wagon Burner | Native Americans | Self-explanatory. |
| Wahoo | Native Americans | War Cry, there was also a famous Native American wrestler named Wahoo McDaniel in the 80's. |
| Wanker | British | Implies that the addresser is accusing the addressee of self-gratification. |
| War Whoop | Native Americans | Refers to the traditional Native American war cry. ? |
| Wasp | Whites | Stands for "White Anglo-Saxton Protestant." Refers to "Pure whites." |
| Watermelons | Guatemalans | Words sound alike, look alike? |
| Webe | Blacks | Pronounced "we be", this refers to the inability of most blacks to conjugate the "be" verb, thus resulting in "we be" instead of "we are" when making references to themselves. |
| Wet-Back | Hispanics | Refers to Mexicans (or illegals) having "wet backs" from swimming across the Rio-Grande to get into America illegally. |
| Wexican | Mixed Races | White/Mexican mix. |
| Whale Turd | Blacks | Derived from the joke - Q. What do you call a black in the ocean? A. A whale turd. |
| Whitetrash | Whites | Lower class whites. Self-explanatory. |
| Whitey | Whites | Self-explanatory. |
| Wigger | Whites | Affluent suburban white kids who dress, talk and act like they were brought up in the ghetto. |
| Wiggeret | Whites | Same as Wigger only for women. |
| Wiggie/Wigg | Non-Whites | Non-Whites who date only Whites or have a strong preference for whites. Stands for "white guy groupie" or "white girl groupie" |
| Windchimes | Blacks | A common practice of southerners was to hang blacks. When the wind blew and swung them back and forth against each other southerners would refer to them as windchimes. |
| Wink | Whites | White person trying to be like or associates with Chinese. |
| Wog | Asians | Abbreviation of either "White-" or "Worthy-Oriental Gentleman." Originally intended as a term denoting respect. In common use, however, it became a term of abuse/denigration. |
| Wog (2) | Greeks or Italians | This term is currently used in Australia to refer to Greeks and Italians. Made popular by the movie "The Wog Boy" |
| Wonder Bread | Whites | Wonder Bread is white. |
| Wood | Whites | Heard in jail; Maybe from Pinewood. |
| Wool Head | Blacks | Self-explanatory. |
| Woolyback | Welsh | NW England origins. Lots of sheep in Wales. |
| Wop | Italians | High class Italian. Stands for "With Out Papers." Started when there was a big Italian emigration to the U.S., and many were coming in illegally (with out papers). |
| Yankee | Americans | Slang used by the British. Also used in the former Confederate states to refer in a derogatory fashion to people of the Union states. Slur perhaps originally used derisively against the Dutch, calling them "John Cheese" (they made/ate a lot of cheese); Non-English speaking Dutch called back to the Americans, yelling "yankee" (mispronunciation). |
| Yard Ape | Blacks | Low-income housing quite often has no air conditioning. Thus, people who live in housing projects often sit out front to keep cool. This slur originated in the 60's and 70's. |
| Yello-Devil | Asians | Common name used by American servicemen to describe the Japanese. Play on "White Devil" |
| Yellow | Asians | Skin color (sort of). |
| Yenta | Jews | Know-it-all Jewish women. |
| Yid/Yid-Lid | Jews | Yid = Yiddish, lid = Yarmelka. |
| Yo Yo | Blacks | "Yo Yo's hang from strings." |
| Zebra | Mixed Races | Black/White mix. Relates the colors of a person's parents to the colors of a zebra's stripes. |
| Zip | Italians | Commonly used in the NY construction industry to describe Immigrant Italian laborers either in the Bricklayer or Concrete Mason trade. They are notoriously hard workers rarely stopping for a break and always "zipping" around the jobsite. They generally have a poor command of the English language. |
| Zipperhead | Asians | Coined by US soldiers during Korean War because if Asians were shot in the head with high powered weapons, their heads would split as if you unzipped them. |
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