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nigger grins

nigger grins is the plural of nigger grin.

Meaning of 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

Questions about nigger grins

What is nigger grins the plural of?
Nigger grins is the plural of nigger grin.

Words near nigger grins in the dictionary

  1. nigger fatigue
  2. Nigger Felon League
  3. nigger galleries
  4. nigger gallery
  5. nigger grin
  6. nigger grins
  7. nigger head
  8. nigger heads
  9. nigger heaven
  10. nigger heavens
  11. nigger in the fence

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