nigger-killer

Noun

nigger killer (countable and uncountable, plural nigger killers)

1. (archaic, offensive) A kind of sweet potato.
   • Next in keeping quality come the Hayti Yam, the Red-skinned, Brimstone, Nigger Killer; and the last of the potato section is the Nansemond.1907, L. H. Bailey, The Horticulturalist’s Rule-Book: A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit-Growers, Truck-Gardeners, Florists, and Others, new and revised edition, New York: The Macmillan...

   Synonyms:

   African red, black Spanish, negro choker, nigger choker, Orleans red

2. (archaic, offensive, uncountable) Inferior rum.
   • This is in fact the poisonous stuff called 'nigger-killer' which I have already spoken of.1897, The Nineteenth Century - Volume 42, page 775
3. (contains an ethnic slur) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nigger, killer (a killer of black people).
   • “Nigger killer!” ejaculates M‘Fadden, “let go there!”1855, Francis Colburn Adams, Our World: Or, the Slaveholder’s Daughter, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, page 388