katsap

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Ukrainian каца́п (kacáp).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kŭt-săp′
  • Rhymes: -æp
  • Hyphenation: kat‧sap

Noun

katsap (plural katsaps)

  1. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Russian, especially from a Ukrainian perspective.
    • 2012, Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution, page 247:
      In the short run, the katsap peril was even more concrete.

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