guinea

n 1: a former British gold coin worth 21 chillings

2: ethnic slur; offensive terms for a person of Italian descent

[syn: {wop}, {dago}, {Guinea}, {greaseball}]

3: a republic in eastern Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a

French colony [syn: {Guinea}, {French Guinea}]

4: W African bird having dark plumage mottled with white;

native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the

world [syn: {guinea fowl}, {Numida meleagris}]