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Trinity Church in Manhattan has been seen as embodying the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture in the United States.. In the United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant Americans of Northwestern European descent, who are generally part of the white dominant culture or upper-class and historically often the ...
Anda. An Urdu language word meaning egg, for the pure-white uniform of traffic police in urban Pakistani areas like Karachi. Askar/Askari. A Somali term meaning “soldier” which is often used by Somali immigrants to the United Kingdom to refer to police. It is commonly used by rappers in UK drill. Aynasız.
RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit in the near future, it centers on police officer Alex Murphy, played by Peter Weller (pictured), who is murdered by a gang of criminals and revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as a cyborg.
Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).
Some saw "lace curtain" Irish Americans as betraying their Irish roots in an attempt to curry favor with White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs). "To be genuinely Irish is to challenge WASP dominance," wrote California politician Tom Hayden. The depiction of Irish people in the films of John Ford was a counterpoint to WASP standards of rectitude.
As an ethnic slur, it means a very stupid New Englander, especially a Rhode Islander. As a sexual slur, this term for clam is similar in meaning to "cunt." Also the name of the fictional city in Family Guy. Quaker. (U.S.) Usually a harsh term for people residing in the Midwest and Eastern United States as farmers.
This article contains a list of terms, jargon, and slang used to varying degrees by railfans and railroad employees in the United States and Canada.Although not exhaustive, many of the entries in this list appear from time to time in specialist, rail-related publications.
The Oxford English Dictionary calls this theory "perhaps the most plausible". Alternatively, the Dutch given names Jan (Dutch:) and Kees (Dutch:) have long been common, and the two are sometimes combined into a single name (Jan Kees). Its Anglicized spelling Yankee could, in this way, have been used to mock Dutch colonists.