nigger-knocking

Noun

nigger knocking (uncountable)

1. (Southern US, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A racial assault by a group of white people, typically bored youths in a truck or car, on one or more black people, typically a random pedestrian.
   • I knew some cats was blowing one-nighters in little sawmill stops down in Missisippi, and one time these white boys — who had been dancing all night to the colored cats' sounds — chased 'em out on the highway and whipped 'em with chains and cut their poor asses with knives! They called it 'nigger...1967 November, Larry L. King, “Everybody's Louie”, in Harper's Magazine, volume 235, number 1410, page 67
2. (US, dated, offensive, slang) Ding-dong ditch.
   • 33. Ding Dong Ditch — Prank involving ringing a doorbell and running from the house (also Ding Dong Door Ditch, Nigger Knocking)1979 December, Gary Alan Fine, “The Children's Glossary; Pre-Adolescent Male Slang II”, in Children's Folklore Review, volume 2, number 2, page 3