zipperhead

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A soldier in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps or in the Armoured Crewman military trade. Canada,slang
  2. A person of East Asian descent. US,derogatory,ethnic,offensive,slang

词形变化

zipperheads plural zipperheads plural

词源

词源 1
From zipper + head. From the leather helmets formerly used by early Canadian armoured crewmen, with a pattern of stitching resembling a zipper. There is also a folk etymology referring to the zippers on armoured-vehicle crew suits (repurposed flight suits).
词源 2
1960s–1970s, zipper + head. Used by soldiers during the Korean and Vietnam Wars; multiple hypotheses exist as to the specific origin. One is that if an East Asian person were shot in the middle of the forehead with a machine gun, the head would split as if being unzipped; another is that the appearance of tire or tank tracks on a body which had been run over by a military Jeep or tank resembled a zipper.
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