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OED slope
6. U.S. slang. An oriental; more recently, spec. a Vietnamese. (Abusive.)Cf. slopehead s.v. slope- a, slopy n., and slant n.1 10.
1948 G. H. Johnston Death takes small Bites v. 121 He seemed a hell of a lot more concerned with his bunch of flea-bitten slopes and his pots of medicine.
1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 45 Slope and slopehead were the most popular terms applied to all ‘indigenous personnel’ [in Korea in 1950–1].
1966 New Statesman 25 Mar. 436/3 He confirms the soldiers' contempt for the Vietnamese (‘slopes’ and ‘gooks’).
1969 [see dink n.3]. 1978 R. Thomas Chinaman's Chance iii. 35 All the Chinaman's gotta do is get into Saigon... Once he's in nobody's gonna notice him, because all those slopes look alike.