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nigger shooter en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (US, ethnic, slang, slur) A catapult or slingshot.
    • A slingshot was commonly referred to as a nigger-shooter, for instance, during the late nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries. “Gee mister, will you show us how to use a nigger-shooter,” implored one Texas youth of a local expert marksman. 2022, Terry Anne Scott, Lynching and Leisure, page 161:
    • Any person who shall shoot an airgun, “nigger shooter,” catapult or such like device, […] 1943, The Code of the City of Houston, Texas, page 605:

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