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pavement ape

pavement ape noun: a black person.

Noun

pavement ape (plural pavement apes)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A black person.
    • Colon, as an Italo-Afro-American, YOU are one of those pavement apes.2015, NEMO, “Re: What does NAACP stand for?”, in uk.rec.driving (Usenet)
    • If the cops have to kill him, they will,^([sic]) claim he committed suicide. Otherwise every pavement ape in Virginia will be out protesting. You know how they love their criminals.2015, Gary, “Re: 2 white TV journalists shot and killed during an ordinary interview about a store.”, in soc.retirement (Usenet)

Examples of pavement ape in a sentence

  • So, as a "hoodrat" and a "pavement ape," it is believed that I am ontologically those horrible things.2020 February 15, George Yancy, Across Black Spaces: Essays and Interviews from an American Philosopher, →ISBN, page 19:
  • White readers responded to Yancy with angry, profanity-laced denunciations ranging from death threats to comments calling him a “pavement ape” that needed to “go back to Africa” (Yancy, 2018).2020 October 12, Todd M. Mealy, Race Conscious Pedagogy: Disrupting Racism at Majority White Schools, McFarland, →ISBN, page 118:

Synonyms of pavement ape

Forms of pavement ape

pluralpavement apes

Questions about pavement ape

What does pavement ape mean?
Pavement ape means a black person.
How do you use pavement ape in a sentence?
So, as a "hoodrat" and a "pavement ape," it is believed that I am ontologically those horrible things.
What part of speech is pavement ape?
Pavement ape is a noun.
What is the plural of pavement ape?
The plural of pavement ape is pavement apes.

Words near pavement ape in the dictionary

  1. Pavelko
  2. Pavelkos
  3. pavement
  4. pavement ant
  5. pavement ants
  6. pavement ape
  7. pavement apes
  8. pavement artist
  9. pavement artists
  10. pavement cafe
  11. pavement cafes

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