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Examples of gook
gook
Traditional Korean food, including bulgogi, kim-chi and duk gook, will be served.
From the DesMoinesRegister.com
Sunday afternoon, a baritone covered in gook again stalked the Chandler stage.
From the latimes.com
Dduk gook, or rice cake soup, and manduk gook, or dumpling soup, are served.
From the sfgate.com
Lee Dong-gook, the big forward, is coming on to add a bit aerial threat.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Two years ago, a bass-baritone covered in gook stalked the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
From the latimes.com
In the past six years, the OED editors had no chance to update that mouthful of gobbledy-gook?
From the online.wsj.com
Kuwait hit the post before Lee Dong-gook opened the scoring for South Korea in the 64th minute.
From the independent.co.uk
Icky dissections are one thing, and green bug gook splattering the faces of soldiers is all well and good.
From the sfgate.com
She starts giving me some gobbledy-gook.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Sludge: any thick, viscous matter
- (slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War)
- Gook // is a derogatory term for Asians, which came to prominence in the context of warfare to refer to enemy soldiers. . Its use as an ethnic slur has been traced to U.S. Marines serving in the Philippines in the early 20th century. nThe earliest recorded use with this meaning is dated 1920. ...
- Kaolack Airport is an airport serving Kaolack, the capital of the Kaolack Region in Senegal.
- A person from the Far East, Oceania or Southeast Asia, in particular a Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, Korean person
- (Gooks) (AmE) Pejorative term for Korean, dating from the Korean War.
- Military slang. A negative nickname for the Vietnamese, VC or any oriental. Also, "dinks, slopes, zips." Few CAP Marines used these terms. Most had too much respect for the villagers and even the VC.
- Derogatory term for an Asian; derived from Korean slang for "person" and passed down by Korean war veterans
- Perjorative term for a North Korean or Chinese person. Could be more widely used as any person of the Oriental race.
