nigger grin

Noun

nigger grin (plural nigger grins)

1. (ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A large, wide grin stereotypically associated with blacks.
   • The women here were not so much frightened at strangers, or made to keep themselves so much secluded as among the Malay races; the children were more merry and had the "nigger grin," while the noisy confusion of tongues among the men, and their excitement on very ordinary occasions, are altogether...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 193
   • His own mother would not have known him as he stepped into the ring on the night appointed for the battle, clad in a complete suit of brown varnish and a pair of white drawers, his woolly scalp a mass of thick, black curls, and wearing the traditional nigger grin, with its rows of shining ivories.1911 April 14, The Eyre's Peninsula Tribune, Cowell, SA, page 4, column 3