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Niggatown en · NOUN

Etymology

From nigga + town.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur, sometimes) An area mainly populated by black people.
    • I'm getting off the B6 bus in Chinatown. But that's fucked up, because what happened to Niggatown? D.C. supposed to be 75 percent black, and we ain't got no Niggatown. I should call up comedian Paul Mooney and say, “Yo, D.C. ain't got no Niggatown, black. What's up wit' dat?” 2016 February 23, Omar Tyree, Capital City, Urban Books, →ISBN, →OCLC:
    • The morning of the fourth day, Leroy, a little colored boy, came to Nick and said, “I know where you' goat is, Nick!” And took Nick over by Davis Avenue, where Niggatown begins, and back of a butcher shop, on the ground, they found Billy's head. 1991, Julian Lee Rayford, Cottonmouth (Library of Alabama classics), University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 50:
    • > CHICAGO - U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-7th Niggatown District) said > Wednesday he bez a VICTIM of RACISM! 2007 November 22, greg3347, “Re: TNB: Congresscoon Playing The RACE Card”, in alt.law-enforcement (Usenet):

Forms

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Synonyms

Niggertown · Coontown