Definition of "dago" [da•go]

• Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for an Italian, Spaniard, or Portuguese. (noun)

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• "But they will accuse you of being a Persian because you are an Indian, as I have heard a man called a dago because he was born somewhere south of a certain line."
• ""Sh.cabka Soomaaliyeed hadii ay iga dalbadaan inaan xilkayga ka dago waan ka dagayaa, anigoo u daneynaya shacbka, balse si kale ugama tagayo shaqadayda" ayuu yiri Sh. Aadan Madoobe."
• "I spent my growing up years fighting mostly for my "dago" friends, not my black friends because they were good friends and went to school and were harassed and were in a minority."