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>>107872 Dictionary.com and wikipedia disagree.
>> Dictonary.com "1. a native of Southeast Asia or the South Pacific, esp. when a member of an enemy military force."
>>Wikipedia "Gook (U.S. military slang) an Asian person, especially an enemy (e.g. Koreans or Vietnamese during the Korean and Vietnam wars). By extension, any Asian person. Derived from the Korean words hanguk and miguk. Guk is from the Chinese, Guo, Kingdom or Country. Hanguk refers to Korea[27] and miguk is the common word for the United States.[28] American troops thought "miguk" sounded like "me gook" (i.e. "I am a gook"). The word persisted during the Vietnam War, perhaps also because the Vietnamese people have a similar word qu?c, meaning "country". "Gook" was also used by white soldiers in Africa to designate enemy insurgents."
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