# List of phrases using ethnic or place names as derisive adjectives

Ethnic and place names are often used as derisive adjectives.
Most of these derisive adjectives reflect stereotypes about the ethnicity or the place. Most are pejorative and some are offensive.

## African dominoes

    Dice.

## African golf

    Craps.

## Arizona cloudburst

    A sandstorm.

## Arizona paint job

    An unpainted, weathered pine building.

## Arkansas asphalt

    A road made of logs.

## Arkansas fire extinguisher

    A chamberpot.

## Arkansas toothpick

    A knife with an extra-legal blade.

## Aztec hop

    Dysentary or diarrhea.

## Baltimore beef steak

    Liver.

## Boston strawberries

    Beans.

## California Bible

    = California prayer book.

## California bank notes

    Silver and hides used as money.

## California breakfast

    A cigarette and an orange.

## California prayer book

    A deck of cards.

## California toothpick

    = Arkansas toothpick.

## Cape Ann turkey

    = Cape Cod turkey

## Cape Cod turkey

    Codfish.

## Chicago overcoat

    cement shoes or a coffin.

## Chicago piano

    A Thompson submachine gun.

## Chinaman's chance

    No chance at all.

## Chinese B

    A grade inflated to compensate for a student's disadvantage.

## Cincinnati quail

    = Confederate beef.

## Colored peoples'/folks' time

    Late.

## Confederate beef/mule

    Fatty salt pork.

## Connecticut mile

    The distance traveled in one minute.

## Curse of Montezuma

    = Aztec hop.

## Dago red

    Cheap red wine.

## Dallas special

    = Arkansas toothpick.

## Detroit iron

    An American car.

## Detroit sled

    = Detroit iron.

## Dutch act

    Suicide.

## Dutch courage

    Courage from drunkenness.

## Dutch leave

    = French leave.

## Dutch rub

    A kind of torture between children.

## Dutch uncle

    An affectionate, older friend, remotely related person, or someone who reprimands severely.

## Ethiopian paradise

    = Nigger heaven

## French inhale

    Exhaling smoke from the mouth and then inhaling it through the nose.

## Glasgow kiss

    A headbutt.

## Glasgow salad

    Chips.

## Haight Street breakfast

    Muscatel and Wheaties.

## Indian haircut

    A scalping.

## Irish banjo

    A shovel.

## Irish confetti

    Bricks and cobblestones thrown during street fights.

## Irish pendants/pennants

    Rags or laundry hung up to dry on board ship.

## Irish shift/switch

    Describes a politician talking to one person with his arm around another, smiling all the while at a third.

## Irish twins

    Siblings born within the same calendar year, or within twelve months of each other.

## Irishman's buggy

    A wheelbarrow.

## Irishman's turkey

    Corned beef and cabbage.

## Jew flag

    A dollar bill.

## Jew shave

    An unshaven face covered with talcum powder.

## Jewish lightning

    Arson for the point of insurance fraud.

## Jewish overdrive

    = Mexican overdrive.

## Jewish side-walls

    = Mexican side-walls

## Jewish time

    Late.

## Jewish windbreaker

    A mink coat.

## Jigaboo joy shop

    A store which sells chrome accessories for automobiles.

## Kansas nigger

    An African-American who does not defer to whites.

## Kentucky credit card

    = Mexican credit card.

## Kentucky oysters

    = Rocky Mountain oysters.

## Kentucky windage

    Compensating for wind or misaligned rifle sights by aiming off target.

## Mahon soger

    A lazy and worthless sailor.

## Mexican Bogner's

    Jeans worn as ski pants.

## Mexican breakfast

    A cigarette and a glass of water.

## Mexican car wash

    Leaving an automobile out in the rain.

## Mexican cashmere

    A sweatshirt.

## Mexican chrome

    Silver-color paint used to decorate a car.

## Mexican credit card

    A siphon for stealing gasoline.

## Mexican dragline

    A shovel.

## Mexican filling station

    = Mexican credit card.

## Mexican fox-trot

    = Aztec hop.

## Mexican motor mount

    Inner tubing used instead of proper parts.

## Mexican muffler

    A can stuffed with steel wool on an exhaust pipe.

## Mexican nose guard

    Jockstrap.

## Mexican overdrive

    Driving downhill in neutral.

## Mexican promotion

    An increase in rank or title without a pay raise.

## Mexican side-walls

    Painted tires.

## Mexican straight

    In poker, any five cards and a sharp knife.

## Mexican threads

    A stripped bolt forced into a hole to cut new threads.

## Mexican toothache

    = Aztec hop.

## Mexican two-step

    = Aztec hop.

## Mexican valve job

    Cleaning a carburetor with kerosene.

## Mexican window shade

    A Venetian blind mounted in the rear window of a car.

## Milwaukee goiter

    A beer belly.

## Mississippi marbles

    Dice.

## Montezuma's revenge

    = Aztec hop.

## Mountain dew

    Moonshine.

## Mountain oysters

    = Rocky Mountain oysters.

## Nigger bait

    (Excess) chrome on an automobile.

## Nigger fishing

    Fishing for low-value fish with a pole and bobber.

## Nigger heaven

    The cheapest balcony seats in a theater.

## Nigger rich

    Either rich and ostentatious or rich one day, poor the next.

## Oklahoma credit card

    = Mexican credit card.

## Oklahoma guarantee

    No guarantee.

## Oklahoma showup

    A falsified police line-up.

## Oregon beef

    Deer killed out of season.

## Pennsylvania salve

    Apple butter.

## Philadelphia lawyer

    A crooked lawyer.

## Polish air conditioning

    Driving with the windows down.

## Prairie coal

    Cow dung used as fuel.

## Prairie oysters

    = Rocky Mountain oysters

## Puerto Rico Pendleton

    An old work shirt.

## Rocky Mountain canary

    A burro.

## Scotch mist

    Dense mist-like rain.

## Scotsman's Zoo

    A viewpoint from which a zoo can be seen without paying.

## Spanish flu

    The 1918 pandemic flu. It was associated to Spain since, in other countries, the World War I censorship blocked local reports to preserve morale.

## Spanish supper

    Tightening of the belt a notch instead of eating.

## Swedish headache

    Pain from sexual arousal without sexual release (cf. Blue balls).

## Texas butter

    Gravy made from bacon grease, flour, and water.

## Texas oysters

    Rocky Mountain oysters

## Texas squirrels

    Prairie dogs used as food.

## Tijuana Bible

    Pornographic comic books.

## Vatican roulette

    Calendar-based contraceptive methods.

## Welsh

    To not do something that had previously been agreed on.

## West Indian Time

    Late.