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niggerball en · NOUN

Etymology

From nigger + ball.

Meanings

1. (South-Africa, countable, dated, offensive) A large black gobstopper (a long-lasting candy).
   • 1972, Contrast, Volume 8, South African Literary Journal Nigger-balls are the best sweets. You get four for a penny. When the black is sucked off you get pink and blue and blue-green, but you can't bite them until you've sucked them small or you'll chip your teeth.
   • niggerballs and liquorice and the soft, brightly-coloured squares that the children loved. 2006, Jocelyn Howe, Crest of eagles:
   • That the words of Jeremy Taylor's Ag Pleez, Deddy have been changed to suit the times? No longer " … how we miss niggerballs and licorice … " but " … how we miss bullseyes and … " Ag pleez, Jeremy. 1979, Financial Mail, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
2. (US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur, uncountable) The sport of basketball.
   • […] two-hundred dollar tennis shoes named after some niggerball player […] 2004, H. A. Covington, A Distant Thunder:
   • It's easy to see how Amerika's so easily turning into a police state, give the unwashed masses their television and some niggerball and they'll ignore the fact that they're slaves. 2002, Lieberal Death, “Your TV viewing for This Evening”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

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