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nigger chaser en · NOUN
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(US, ethnic, slang, slur) A kind of bottle rocket firework without the stick.
A “nigger chaser,” another name for a Texas Twister firework, would travel in all kinds of directions on the ground making a whistling noise and then finally popping with a loud bang.
2019, Dr. Rickey L. Harman, Happy Days in Happy, Texas:There's sure to be fireworks there. […] Rockets and Roman candles and torpedoes and whirligigs and nigger chasers and pinwheels.
1924 July, Boys' Life, page 5:Each had been given two dollars. Enough money to fill a good sized paper sack with a mix of sparklers, crackers, “dago bombs,” and “nigger chasers.”
2007, George C. Zidbeck, Kid Scorpion: The War Years, page 49:
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