Thicklips

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A black person. ethnic, slur

    "1846, James Fenimore Cooper, The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin The red man was born here; the pale man was born across the salt lake; the black man came from a country of his own, where the sun is always above his head. What of that? We are brothers. The Thicklips (this was the name by which the strangers designated Jaaf, as we afterward learned) is the friend of Susquesus."

Example

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"1846, James Fenimore Cooper, The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin The red man was born here; the pale man was born across the salt lake; the black man came from a country of his own, where the sun is always above his head. What of that? We are brothers. The Thicklips (this was the name by which the strangers designated Jaaf, as we afterward learned) is the friend of Susquesus."

Etymology

thick + lips

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