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nigger knocker

nigger knocker noun: a nightstick or a similar weapon.

Noun

nigger knocker (plural nigger knockers)

  1. (US, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A nightstick or a similar weapon.
    • She knew “who was going with who and when they were doing it and what night of the week they were doing it.” And when the detectives were using the “burrhead sticks” or “nigger knockers” on some poor blacks, she would have to leave […]1996, Jack Nelson, Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews, University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 129
    • So Harry runs to open up the deadlock. Now Joey got the nigger knocker wrapped around his hand real tight, dig. I know he about to correct me on some honky rules.2005 July 2, Miguel Piñero, Outlaw: The Collected Works of Miguel Piñero, Arte Publico Press, →ISBN, page 226
  2. (US, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A wooden baton used by truckers to check the tire pressure.
  3. (Southern US, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) One who participates in an act of nigger knocking.
    • Curiously, the militant black leaders with whom I have discussed "nigger-knocking" are remarkably unconcerned. One mentions several hundred black bodies a year littering the Southern roads, and the black leaders reply: “Hell, we lose that many each year just in Newark because of narcotics or bad...1969 October, Peter Young, “Appendix B: The Contemporary Ku Klux Klan; Part 2: Violence and the White Ghetto, a View From the Inside”, in James F. Kirkham, Sheldon G. Levy, William J. Crotty...
    • Informants of varying reliability furnished dozens of potential suspects [for the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing] [...] Some specialized in booby traps (for protecting arms caches). Others were "nigger-knockers," who assaulted blacks.2000, Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics, 2nd edition, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 187

Examples of nigger knocker in a sentence

  • The nigger knocker: The nigger knocker was a cut-down-to-size nightstick that measured about ten inches in length.2014 January 20, Noah Jacobson, The Pop up Kid: Secret Memoirs of the Intentionally Abused, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 243:
  • Once more he came outside and cursed his phantom nigger knockers.2017 February 10, Rion Amilcar Scott, “The Nigger Knockers”, in New York Tyrant:

Forms of nigger knocker

pluralnigger knockers
alternative formnigger-knocker

Questions about nigger knocker

What does nigger knocker mean?
Nigger knocker means a nightstick or a similar weapon.
How do you use nigger knocker in a sentence?
The nigger knocker: The nigger knocker was a cut-down-to-size nightstick that measured about ten inches in length.
What part of speech is nigger knocker?
Nigger knocker is a noun.
What is the plural of nigger knocker?
The plural of nigger knocker is nigger knockers.

Words near nigger knocker in the dictionary

  1. nigger in the wood pile
  2. nigger in the wood-pile
  3. nigger in the woodpile
  4. nigger killer
  5. nigger killers
  6. nigger knocker
  7. nigger knockers
  8. nigger knocking
  9. nigger lips
  10. nigger logic
  11. nigger lotteries

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