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niggerball

niggerball noun: a large black gobstopper (a long-lasting candy).

Noun

niggerball (countable and uncountable, plural niggerballs)

  1. (South Africa, countable, dated, offensive) A large black gobstopper (a long-lasting candy).
    • Nigger-balls are the best sweets. You get four for a penny. When the black is sucked off you get pink and blue and blue-green, but you can't bite them until you've sucked them small or you'll chip your teeth.1972, Contrast, Volume 8, South African Literary Journal
    • That the words of Jeremy Taylor's Ag Pleez, Deddy have been changed to suit the times? No longer " … how we miss niggerballs and licorice … " but " … how we miss bullseyes and … " Ag pleez, Jeremy.1979, Financial Mail, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  2. (US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur, uncountable) The sport of basketball.
    • It's easy to see how Amerika's so easily turning into a police state, give the unwashed masses their television and some niggerball and they'll ignore the fact that they're slaves.2002, Lieberal Death, “Your TV viewing for This Evening”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet)
    • […] two-hundred dollar tennis shoes named after some niggerball player […]2004, H. A. Covington, A Distant Thunder

Forms of niggerball

pluralniggerballs

Origin of niggerball

From nigger + ball.

Questions about niggerball

What does niggerball mean?
Niggerball means a large black gobstopper (a long-lasting candy).
What part of speech is niggerball?
Niggerball is a noun.
What is the plural of niggerball?
The plural of niggerball is niggerballs.

Words near niggerball in the dictionary

  1. nigger-rigging
  2. nigger-rigs
  3. niggerati
  4. niggeration
  5. niggerbabble
  6. niggerball
  7. niggerballs
  8. niggerbitch
  9. niggerbitches
  10. niggerboy
  11. niggerboys

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