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nigger heavens

nigger heavens is the plural of nigger heaven.

Meaning of nigger heaven

Noun

nigger heaven (plural nigger heavens)

  1. (US, derogatory, offensive, slang) A place or a circumstance regarded by black people to be pleasant or enjoyable.
  2. (historical, offensive, dated (chiefly 1870s)) The peanut gallery in a theater.
    • It took close figuring to do anything but live that first year and yet we pushed our way with the crowd into the nigger heavens and saw most of the good shows. I had never been to the theatre before and I liked it.1911, William Carleton?, One Way Out: A Middle-Class New-Englander Emigrates to America, Small, Maynard & Company, page 8

Questions about nigger heavens

What is nigger heavens the plural of?
Nigger heavens is the plural of nigger heaven.

Words near nigger heavens in the dictionary

  1. nigger grin
  2. nigger grins
  3. nigger head
  4. nigger heads
  5. nigger heaven
  6. nigger heavens
  7. nigger in the fence
  8. nigger in the wood pile
  9. nigger in the wood-pile
  10. nigger in the woodpile
  11. nigger killer

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