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This is a list of common American and English words and phrases based on racial, ethnic, religious, regional or other stereotypes. All should be presumed derogatory and offensive until proven otherwise.
- African engineering, a euphemism for nigger-rigging (see below)
- Australian/Aussie Kiss, cunilingus, because it is a kiss "down under"
- Bronx cheer
- Chav, UK term somewhat akin to the US trailer trash (see below)
- Chinaman's chance, having no chance at all.
- Chinese compliment, pretending to acknowledge the opinions of others, while going forward with an already made decision.
- Chinese copy, a duplicate that replicates something perfectly, including errors
- Chinese fire drill
- Croydon facelift
- Cry like a girl
- Dutch, trouble (i.e., "He got into some Dutch")
- Dutch courage, drunken bravery
- Dutch fuck, lighting a cigarette with another lit cigarette to save the extra match
- Dutch treat
- Dutch uncle
- Eskimo kiss, rubbing noses
- Greek sex, anal sex
- Gypsy Kiss, piss, from Cockney rhyming slang
- Free, white and 21 (and therefore can do what one wants)
- French Advance, military term for a retreat
- French kiss (not offensive -- there is a French verb frencher meaning this type of kiss)
- French leave, to go AWOL or disappear stealthily, presumably retaliatory for French filer à l'anglaise
- French letter, condom (c.f. the French 'la capote anglaise', also meaning condom).
- Gyp, to cheat, from Gypsy
- Jap crap, Japanese-made motorcycles and cars, originally smaller and lighter than their American counterparts, and therefore presumably inferior.
- Jap Play, a football term for a sneak attack, publicly used in 2004 by the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys
- Indian giver
- Irish confetti, a thrown or tossed stone or brick
- Irish it up (i.t. put liquor into a beverage), alludes to the stereotype of the hard-drinking Irish
- Irish twins, two siblings born within the same year (9 to 12 months apart) based on the stereotype that the Irish had too many children
- Jew someone out of something (anti-Semitic phrase which implies that Jews are cheats)
- Luck of the Irish, having no damn luck at all.
- Mexican chrome, silver or metallic colored paint used to give an object the appearance of a chrome finish, typically used on car parts such as bumpers and wheels.
- Mexican standoff
- Mexican overdrive, coasting downhill in an automobile with the engine turned off
- Mighty 'white' of you sarcastic African-American expression meaning 'that's big of you' see Play the White Man, below
- Mongoloid
- New York snowball, a snowball with a brick or chunk of something hard hidden in the middle.
- Nigger-rigged, described improvised or poorly-done work. The phrase Jury- or Jerry-rigged is now usually substituted.
- Normal for Norfolk
- Paddywagon, based on the stereotype that most cops and/or criminals were Irish in the 19th-century
- Play the white man
- Pramface, term of abuse aimed at, in particular, female pop stars from lower class backgrounds - contracted from 'a face more suited to pushing a pram around a council estate' (i.e. being a single mother on social security). Coined on the Popbitch website.
- Puerto Rican blond, badly dyed hair, or a woman with the same
- Red-headed Stepchild, a child who is obviously not your own, a child who is treated worse than other children in the family (for example "I beat him like a Red-headed Stepchild')
- Scottish kiss
- Southern hospitality
- Texas tux, usually jeans, cowboy boots and hat substituted for the corresponding articles of a regular tuxedo.
- Throw like a girl
- Trailer trash
- Turning Japanese, a term for excessive masturbation, based on the perception that men make a face where they squint their eyes and curl their lips to expose the upper incisors (resembling the stereotypical image of a Japanese)
- Welsher (Welcher), from Wales, meaning "renege on a bet"
- White slavery
- White Trash, a term of insult to uncouth Caucasians
- Yankee ingenuity
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