Niggerskin

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A black person's skin. derogatory, offensive, slang

    "A curious, throbbing, impersonal force flowed through me and around me in an unstemmable tide. It was in the music, in the soft, soft niggerskins, in the pale whiteskins."

  2. 2
    A black person. derogatory, ethnic, metonymically, offensive, slang, slur

    "The voices had begun to circle silently and secretly and purposefully. “You're from Jap-pan pan pan niggerskin, and you made Pearl Harbor where we got you. Rat-ta-tat-tat!”"

Example

More examples

"A curious, throbbing, impersonal force flowed through me and around me in an unstemmable tide. It was in the music, in the soft, soft niggerskins, in the pale whiteskins."

Etymology

From nigger + skin.

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