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nigger moment en · NOUN

Etymology

Popularised by the television series The Boondocks.

Meanings

1. (ethnic, offensive, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang, slur) A moment in which emotion or ignorance overpowers one's rationality, causing an outburst of irrational aggression.
   • The “What'chu lookin' at?!” beef was brewing and it could easily become a “nigger moment.” We stopped and I maintained eye contact with them as they walked sideways past us. They didn't say anything and I had nothing to say either. 2015, Cavario H., Raised by Wolves : Inside the Life & Mind of a Guerrilla Hustler:
   • The victim in a “nigger moment” may, in turn, identify his or her abuser as a racist—the most powerful verbal weapon in the black person's arsenal. 2012, Elijah Anderson, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life:

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