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Spearchucker

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A black (African or African-American or an Aboriginal Australian) person. Australia, British, US, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur

    "The other night, Jackson's on the radio asking if anybody in the area has seen two spearchuckers winging it off on foot with a pile of nigger clothes in their hands. Jesus Christ. Spearchuckers? Niggers? The guy's KKK material."

  2. 2
    An agitator. Australia, humorous

    "O’Dwyer is seen by the Kroger people as a spear-chucker for everything anti-Kroger."

Etymology

From spear + chucker, in the offensive sense, alluding to a stereotype of Africans as primitive savages who use spears in hunting and war.

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