Sentence examples for wop from inspiring English sources

Is it a more hurtful racial epithet than insults such as kike, wop, wetback, mick, chink, and gook?

A publisher of dictionaries plans to omit from future editions the words "nigger", "coon," "sheeny", "dago", and "wop".

Fueled by the success of the single "Doo Wop (That Thing)," the album went multiplatinum in several countries, and in 1999 Hill was nominated for 10 Grammy Awards.

Billy Hill (extortionist and black marketeer), for instance, wrote Boss of the Underworld, a book enlivened by his retinue of colourful associates such as Soapy Harry, Long Stan, Bear's Breath, Square Georgie, Tony the Wop and Teddy "Odd Legs" Machin.

It came from a line of African-American music that's gentler, but just as crucial – from the tenderness of doo-wop, and from gospel, to which so many things return.

The lead track, "Walk Us Uptown", struts with the same sass as his 1977 song "Watching the Detectives".” The dreamy doo-wop of "Tripwire" grabs a glockenspiel from the intro of "Satellite" from his 1989 album Spike .You can only get this kind of sound with a switch," says Mr Costello.

In the United States, depending on the region of the country, the options were joining an electric-guitar bar band that played country music or blues or singing doo-wop on a street corner.

Later generations, however, would recognize the group not only as pioneers in rhythm and blues but also as roots artists of rock and roll whose influence on the doo-wop vocal groups of the 1950s and '60s was considerable.

The Moonglows, American doo-wop vocal group that was one of the pioneering acts of rock and roll.

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, American vocal group popular in the mid-1950s, primexponentsts of the doo-wop vocal style.

The Platters, American vocal ensemble, one of the foremost singing groups of the early days of rock and roll and also often associated with the doo-wop style.