Filipinos
People from the Philippines, an archipelago nation in Southeast Asia.
| Term | Origin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Buk-Buk | Insult originating in Hawaii. A slur on how Filipino languages sound to non-Filipinos. Sounds like "book-book." | |
| Fili Cheese Steak | Refers to what it looks like when a Filipino woman is in a gangbang. | |
| Filthy Pino | Poor Filipinos, Filipinos who act black. | |
| Fligga | Flip + nigga. Filipinos attempting to act Black. | |
| Fligger | Filipinos that think they are black. | |
| Flip | Shortened form of "Filipino." Could also stand for "Funny (or Fucking) Little Island People." | |
| Huk | Used against Filipinos. Derived from the Hukbalahap, a communist guerrilla movement in the Philippines after World War II. Used by American military and colonial personnel. | |
| LBFM | Female Filipinos, or Asians in general. From 1970s military slang, stands for "Little Brown Fucking Machine." | |
| Little Brown Buddy | FDR referred to them this way. | |
| Mail-order Bride | The Philippines is one of the biggest sources of mail-order brides. | |
| Rag | Filipinos (especially women) are said to tend to have raggy-looking, coarse hair. | |
| Seagull | Possibly from how Filipinos often travel overseas to work like migratory birds (although the seagull is not migratory). Heard in Japan, used by non-Japanese. | |
| Tailless Monkeys | Americans who came to the Philippines at the end of the 19th century called Filipinos "tailless monkeys" because they were small, brown and said to live in trees. | |
| TNT | "Tago nang tago" ("hiding and hiding"). A Filipino who is an illegal alien. From the I.N.S. |