nigger knocking
nigger knocking noun: 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.
Noun
nigger knocking (uncountable)
- 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
- Sometimes it is good to reflect on the Neanderthal period of my youth, when I rode in the back seat of a '57 Chevrolet along a night-blackened Carolina road hunting for blacks to hit with rotten watermelons tossed from the window of the speeding car, as they walked the shoulder of thin backroads....1972, Pat Conroy, The Water Is Wide, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 6
- 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
- In Sanford Heights the preadolescent prank of ringing a doorbell and running away before the door was answered was known as “Nigger Knocking” as well as by its more common name, “Ding Dong Ditch.”1987, Gary Alan Fine, With the boys : Little League baseball and preadolescent culture, page 230
Examples of nigger knocking in a sentence
- They called it 'nigger knocking.' No reason — except they was so goddamn miserable they had to mess everybody else up, ya dig?1967 November, Larry L. King, “Everybody's Louie”, in Harper's Magazine, volume 235, number 1410, page 67:
- White boys in my school frequently talked about "going nigger knocking".2017, Laughlin McDonald, “Growing Up in Winnsboro, South Carolina”, in Kent Spriggs, editor, Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers; Reflections...
Forms of nigger knocking
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Origin of nigger knocking
In sense 2, perhaps influenced by knick-knock, another name for the same prank.
Questions about nigger knocking
- What does nigger knocking mean?
- Nigger knocking means 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.
- How do you use nigger knocking in a sentence?
- They called it 'nigger knocking.' No reason — except they was so goddamn miserable they had to mess everybody else up, ya dig?
- What part of speech is nigger knocking?
- Nigger knocking is a noun.
Words near nigger knocking in the dictionary
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