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gigaboo

gigaboo is the alternative spelling of jigaboo.

Meaning of jigaboo

Noun

jigaboo (plural jigaboos)

  1. (dated, offensive, slang) A black person.
    • […] a thicklips, a jigaboo or a jungle bunny, a spook or a spearchucker. My least favourite of these names that people found for black people was the rancid and disgusting “munter”, a Bantu word which the Afrikaners used as an expletive […]2012, Michael Rogers, Coconut Shells, page 3
  2. (dated, offensive, slang) Any dark-skinned person.

Forms of gigaboo

pluralgigaboos

Questions about gigaboo

What is gigaboo the alternative spelling of?
Gigaboo is the alternative spelling of jigaboo.

Words near gigaboo in the dictionary

  1. gigabinary
  2. gigabit
  3. gigabit cities
  4. gigabit city
  5. gigabits
  6. gigaboo
  7. gigaboos
  8. gigabuck
  9. gigabucks
  10. gigabyte
  11. gigabytes

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