This is a list of common American and British Commonwealth words and phrases based on racial, ethnic, religious, regional or other stereotypes. All should be presumed derogatory and offensive until proven otherwise.

• African engineering , a euphemism for nigger-rigging (see below)
• Australian/Aussie Kiss, cunnilingus, because it is a kiss "down under"
• Bronx cheer
• Chav, UK term somewhat akin to the US trailer trash (see below)
• Chinaman's chance , having no chance at all.
• Chinese Ace , a term used during World War I to describe an allied pilot who shot down allied planes.
• Chinese compliment , pretending to acknowledge the opinions of others, while going forward with an already made decision.
• Chinese copy , a duplicate that replicates something perfectly, including errors
• Chinese finger cuffs
• Chinese fire drill
• Chinese whispers
• Croydon facelift
• Cry like a girl
• Dutch, trouble (i.e., "He got into some Dutch")
• Dutch act , suicide
• Dutch bargain , made when both parties are drinking
• Dutch courage, drunken bravery
• Dutch feast , a drinking party
• Dutch fuck , lighting a cigarette with another lit cigarette to save the extra match
• Dutch oven, name for a practical joke played on bedmates by restraining them under the covers after you have passed gas.
• Dutch treat
• Dutch uncle
• Dutch widow , a prostitute
• Eskimo kiss, rubbing noses
• Finlandization
• Finnlandisierung (Finlandization translated to German)
• Free, white and 21 (and therefore can do what one wants)
• French Advance , military term for a retreat
• French kiss (not offensive -- there is a French verb frencher meaning this type of kiss)
• French leave, to go AWOL or disappear stealthily, presumably retaliatory for French filer à l'anglaise
• French letter, condom (c.f. the French 'la capote anglaise', also meaning condom).
• French style , oral sex
• Greek sex, anal sex
• Greek style , anal sex
• Gyp, to cheat, from Gypsy
• Gypsy Kiss, piss, from Cockney rhyming slang
• Hara-kiri, a symbolic suicide (for example job resignation) to avoid personal embarrassment (from the Japanese practice of ritual suicide)
• Indian giver
• Irish confetti , a thrown or tossed stone or brick
• Irish it up (i.e. put liquor into a beverage), alludes to the stereotype of the hard-drinking Irish
• Irish twins, two siblings born within the same year (9 to 12 months apart) based on the stereotype that the Irish had too many children
• get your Irish up (to lose one's temper), suggests that the Irish have difficulty with self control, often used in the phrase "Don't get your Irish up!"
• Japanese Agreement, term for supposed business agreements made with the Japanese that don't pan out, to appear concilliatory and polite Japanese businessmen agree to many things with Westerners during business meetings - but fail to follow through
• Jap crap , Japanese-made motorcycles and cars, originally smaller and lighter than their American counterparts, and therefore presumably inferior.
• Jap Play , a football term for a sneak attack, publicly used in 2004 by the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys
• Jap Slap , a sudden unexpected slap across the face
• Jew Down (anti-Semitic) term for negotiating a better price (ie: Jews never pay retail)
• Jew someone out of something (anti-Semitic phrase which implies that Jews are cheats)
• Jewish lightning , deliberately burning your house down to claim on the insurance
• Kamikaze, an attack on others that ends up destroying one's self (from the Japanese practice in WWII)
• Luck of the Irish , having no damn luck at all.
• Mexican chrome , silver or metallic colored paint used to give an object the appearance of a chrome finish, typically used on car parts such as bumpers and wheels.
• Mexican overdrive , coasting downhill in an automobile with the engine turned off
• Mexican standoff
• Mighty 'white' of you sarcastic African-American expression meaning 'that's big of you' see Play the White Man, below
• Mongoloid, Since people with the disability Down syndrome often share these traits, the term "Mongoloid" was once also used as a synonym for "retarded". This usage, once neutral, is now considered offensive.
• Montezuma's Revenge, Diarrhea from visiting Mexico, or from eating Mexican food in other countries
• New York snowball , a snowball with a brick or chunk of something hard hidden in the middle.
• Nigger Chaser , term for a low yield firework that flys/bounces close to the ground and whistles until it pops
• Nigger-rigged , described improvised or poorly-done work. The phrase Jury- or Jerry-rigged is now usually substituted.
• Nigger Toes , a pejorative term for Brazil Nuts based on their resemblance to black toes
• Normal for Norfolk
• Paddywagon, based on the stereotype that most cops and/or criminals were Irish in the 19th-century
• Play the white man
• Polish roulette , just like Russian roulette but played with an automatic pistol instead of a revolver
• polish shower to use spray on deorderant without washing first
• Pramface , term of abuse aimed at, in particular, female pop stars from lower class backgrounds - contracted from 'a face more suited to pushing a pram around a council estate' (i.e. being a single mother on social security). Coined on the Popbitch website.
• Puerto Rican blond , badly dyed hair, or a woman with the same
• Red-headed Stepchild , a child who is obviously not your own, a child who is treated worse than other children in the family (for example "I beat him like a Red-headed Stepchild')
• Russian Roulette
• Scottish kiss, A head butt.
• Southern hospitality
• Texas tux , usually jeans, cowboy boots and hat substituted for the corresponding articles of a regular tuxedo.
• Throw like a girl
• Trailer trash
• Turning Japanese, a term for excessive masturbation, based on the perception that men make a face where they squint their eyes and curl their lips to expose the upper incisors (resembling the stereotypical image of a Japanese)
• Welsher (Welcher), from Wales, meaning "renege on a bet"
• White slavery, historical practice of Arabs kidnapping whites for sexual slavery
• White Trash, a term of insult to uncouth Caucasians
• Yankee ingenuity

See also

• List of ethnic slurs
• List of ethnic stereotypes
• List of sexual slurs
• Term of disparagement
• Non-sexist language