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nigga nod en · NOUN
Meanings
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(slang) An affectionate nod of respect shared between two black people, which goes down-up-down instead of up-down-up.
Inside the room were three African American males sitting, waiting, and thumbing through various magazines. They looked up at me briefly without saying a single word before resuming their reads. I didn't get a hello, a how you doing, a what's up, or what's happening. Not so much as a nigga's nod. So much for either hospitality or congeniality.
2004, Freddy Cee, Post-9/11, African American Style: Laughter, Still Da Best Medicine, page 35:"How you feeling?" Roxy asked from the couch. "I'm okay," Stephen answered, giving Roxy the Negro nod of acknowledgment.
2015, Luv Alwayz: The Opposite Sex and Relationships, page 271:I gave him the nigga-nod and he hit me right back so I knew we were cool
2012, Mat Johnson, Pym, page 12:
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Negro nod