Noun

(en noun)

A foolish or contemptible man.

* {{quote-book

, year=1931 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Grace Hegger Lewis , title=Half a Loaf , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=189 , passage=Don't see a movie in it myself, but those Hollywood ginks will take anything. }}

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, year=1973 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Richard Cowper , title=Clone , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Doubleday , isbn= , page=33 , passage=No wonder the country's on its bloody knees! You ginks are a bloody disgrace to the human race!' }}

(slang) a fellow; person.

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, year=1914 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Mucker , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted. }}

Noun

(en noun)

(US, Canada, slang, derogatory) A person of Mediterranean (especially Italian) descent, stereotypically regarded as shallow and materialistic.

* 1993 , Purdue Research Foundation, Romance Languages Annual

Ginos are essentially teenagers of Italian background who take on what they think are traits that characterize an Italian...

* 1994 , Marcel Danesi, Cool: The Signs and Meanings of Adolescence?

Ginos and Ginas typically came from Italian households, wore stylish clothing, and listened to disco-type music.

* 200 , "[+//Tania//-]", "They're not going there just to get high"'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''alt.rave )

Not all ginos and ginas are the same, just becuz you've come across a couple you hate, doesn't mean you hate them all. ... Where I live it is probably 99% ginos and ginas and I get along with them just fine, in fact, my boyfriend is a gino.