weeaboo

American

[wee-uh-boo] / ˈwi əˌbu /

noun

Slang: Disparaging. a non-Japanese person viewed as being obsessed with Japanese culture and media.

Etymology

Origin of weeaboo

Coined in 2005 by U.S. cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch (born 1982) as a nonsensical term in a strip of his webcomic The Perry Bible Fellowship; shortly thereafter repurposed by users of the website 4chan to replace the slur Wapanese (either w(hite) ( def. ) or w(annabe) ( def. ) + Japanese ( def. ) )

Example Sentences

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The 27-year-old U.S. census worker considers herself “a weeaboo anime kind of person,” referring to obsessive fans of Japanese comics and video games.

From Los Angeles Times

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