gooks

Noun (1)

gook (plural gooks)

1. (US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A Korean person (especially the North Koreans during the Korean War).
   • A few days later he had a 'damned good party' at NORMASH, drinking brandy, and he then 'beat up a Gook [Korean] village.' This resulted in an 'awful hangover all day', […] Later, he walked back to his unit, alone at three o'clock in the morning, having 'swiped a Gook torch.'2002, Colin Baker, Wild Goose: The Life and Death of Hugh Van Oppen, pages 59–60
2. (US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A Vietnamese person (including, but not limited to, Vietcong in the Vietnam War).
   • Of course, I've got so many confirmed kills I lost count. Nobody believes me because the gooks drag off their dead.1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 57

   Synonyms:

   dink

3. (dated, derogatory) A foreigner (to the speaker), especially the (enemy) natives of a place the speaker's military is at war with or in.
   • "Haiti is a country with a history, […]" "but how about the Marines, and the gendarmerie; aren't they on the job?" […] "You know darn well a civilian can't get away with handling a gook like a Marine can; […]"1924 September 30, John Webb, “Henri II”, in Adventure, volume 48, number 6, page 101
   1. (Rhodesia, dated, derogatory) A black insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War.
      • "But shit, man, don't we do a fucking good job of it. Jesus, we slew long gooks this last trip," quipped Mark.1997, Dick Gledhill, One Commando: Rhodesia's Last Years & the Guerilla^([sic]) War It Never Lost, page 55

Noun (2)

gook (countable and uncountable, plural gooks)

1. (informal) Grime or mud.
   • "Roost No More" was a yellow gook that Joe's people would spread around, for a fee, on the ledges of houses and commercial buildings plagued by pigeons.1983, Len O'Connor, A Reporter in Sweet Chicago, →ISBN, page 351

Noun (3)

gook (plural gooks)

1. (slang) A dull or hapless person.
   • the poor old gook was spitting blood1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season

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